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

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

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

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

Burns, George

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, French

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

12.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Updike, John

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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

18.

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

Pittacus

22.

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

Durant, William J.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

24.

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

Reston, James

25.

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

Solon

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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

32.

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

Melbourne, Lord

33.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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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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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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

38.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

39.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

40.

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

Friedman, Milton

41.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Cousin, Victor

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.