Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Cousin, Victor

Best Quotes about Government

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Douglas, William O.

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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Fred Thompson

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Bob Wells

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pittacus

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Updike, John

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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