Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

George W. Bush

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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

28.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bob Wells

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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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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

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

Bunting, Basil

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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