Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Jackson, Andrew

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Reston, James

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

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

Hume, David

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

Fred Thompson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

12.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bob Wells

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

18.

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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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

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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

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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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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Voltaire

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Updike, John