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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Amsterdam, Maury

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Fred Thompson

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Marshalov, Boris

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pittacus

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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