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

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

Themistocles

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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

Jackson, Andrew

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

14.

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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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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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

19.

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.

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

Voltaire

21.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

22.

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

Durant, William J.

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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

24.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

25.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

26.

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

Welch, Robert

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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

28.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

29.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

30.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

31.

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

32.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

33.

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

Gladstone, William E.

34.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

35.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

36.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

37.

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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

43.

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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

48.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.