Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Richard M. Nixon

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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

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.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Reston, James

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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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 easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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 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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Churchill, Winston

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald