Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Hume, David

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

Reston, James

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

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

Truman, Harry S

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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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

11.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

12.

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

Bob Wells

13.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Reston, James

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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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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

18.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

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

Gardner, John W.

20.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kempton, Murray

22.

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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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

24.

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

25.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

28.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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

30.

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

George W. Bush

31.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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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

41.

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