Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Pittacus

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Marshalov, Boris

10.

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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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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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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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

31.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lawson, Nigel

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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

Bob Wells

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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