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

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

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

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, French

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

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Burns, George

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Durant, William J.