Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Caldwell, John S.

Best Quotes about Government

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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

10.

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

Welch, Robert

11.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

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

Updike, John

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

15.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

16.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

18.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

20.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

21.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

23.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

25.

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

Pittacus

26.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

28.

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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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

30.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

32.

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

33.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

34.

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

35.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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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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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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 best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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

Reston, James

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Fear is the foundation of most government.