Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Solon

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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

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Welch, Robert

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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

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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

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

Bunting, Basil

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

George W. Bush

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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

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

Burns, George

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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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

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Gladstone, William E.

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Themistocles

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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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

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

Hume, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew