Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Boytzwnburg, Count

Best Quotes about Government

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

Pittacus

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

Hume, David

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Douglas, William O.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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

Reston, James

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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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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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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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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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

24.

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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Durant, William J.

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

38.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Reston, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

49.

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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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