Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Dulles, John Foster

Best Quotes about Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Marshalov, Boris

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Themistocles

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

Melbourne, Lord

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Baluch, Joy

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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Pittacus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Douglas, William O.

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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

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bob Wells

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reston, James

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y