Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Crockett, Davy

Best Quotes about Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

Themistocles

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

Pittacus

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

10.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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

Cousin, Victor

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bunting, Basil

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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

18.

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

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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

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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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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

22.

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

Voltaire

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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.

28.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

29.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

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

32.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Kempton, Murray

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

40.

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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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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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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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

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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.

47.

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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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

49.

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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire