Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Douglas, William O.

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 easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Bob Wells

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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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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

12.

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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hospers, John

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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 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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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fred Thompson

24.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

28.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Burns, George

32.

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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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

38.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

42.

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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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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