Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Cousin, Victor

Best Quotes about Government

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Murray, Bill

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Richard M. Nixon

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Reston, James

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Bunting, Basil