Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Caldwell, John S.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Durant, William J.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hospers, John

13.

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

Dulles, John Foster

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

16.

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

Baxter, Beverley

17.

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

18.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

20.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

21.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Bunting, Basil

23.

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

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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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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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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

27.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

28.

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

29.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

30.

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

31.

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

Bob Wells

32.

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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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

34.

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

Reston, James

35.

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.

37.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Bastiat, Frederic

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

42.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

45.

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

Reagan, Ronald

46.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

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

Friedman, Milton

48.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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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