Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Updike, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

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

Reston, James

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gladstone, William E.

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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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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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gardner, John W.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Solon