Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Fred Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

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

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

10.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

11.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

12.

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

13.

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

14.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Bob Wells

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

18.

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

19.

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

Melbourne, Lord

20.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

21.

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

22.

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

Durant, William J.

23.

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

Reston, James

24.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

25.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

26.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

30.

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

Caldwell, John S.

31.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

32.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

33.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Crockett, Davy

35.

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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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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

40.

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

Dulles, John Foster

41.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

42.

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

Baluch, Joy

43.

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

44.

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

Friedman, Milton

45.

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.

46.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.