Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Themistocles

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reston, James

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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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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baluch, Joy

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dulles, John Foster

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Bob Wells

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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