Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Boytzwnburg, Count

Best Quotes about Government

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Themistocles

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

Burns, George

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

Reston, James

11.

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

Baxter, Beverley

12.

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

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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

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

Updike, John

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Pittacus

18.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bob Wells

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

Voltaire

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Friedman, Milton

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard