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

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

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Welch, Robert

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

Bob Wells

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jackson, Andrew

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Proverb, French

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

Reston, James

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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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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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 does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Pittacus

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reston, James

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y