Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Updike, John

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

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

Burns, George

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

11.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Limbaugh, Rush

19.

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

Bob Wells

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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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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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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

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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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

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.