Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Government

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

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

Douglas, William O.

11.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

12.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

13.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

14.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

15.

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

16.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

17.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

18.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

19.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

20.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

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

22.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

25.

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

Herbert, A. P.

26.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

27.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

29.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

30.

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

Bertrand Russell

31.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

32.

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

Bunting, Basil

33.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

36.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

38.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

39.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Burns, George

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

43.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

44.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

45.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

46.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.