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

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

Douglas, William O.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

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

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

Burns, George

10.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Melbourne, Lord

20.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

24.

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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

28.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

30.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

31.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

35.

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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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

40.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reston, James

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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

Dulles, John Foster