Motivational Quotes

Government

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

10.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

11.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

12.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

14.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

15.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

19.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

20.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

25.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

26.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

27.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

28.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

30.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

31.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

32.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

34.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

35.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

36.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

39.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

40.

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

44.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush