Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Bunting, Basil

Best Quotes about Government

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Bunting, Basil

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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 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 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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durant, William J.

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

Pittacus

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Hume, David

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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

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Douglas, William O.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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 the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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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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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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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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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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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold