Motivational Quotes

Government

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

- Douglas, William O.

Best Quotes about Government

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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

Fred Thompson

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

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Friedman, Milton

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Welch, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Themistocles

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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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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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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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