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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
- Durant, William J.
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Russell, Bertrand

2.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

3.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

4.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

5.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Amsterdam, Maury

6.
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

7.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

8.
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

9.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count

10.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

11.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald

12.
All good government must begin at home.
Haweis, H. R.

13.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

14.
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

15.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick

16.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De

17.
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

18.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.
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

20.
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.
Noonan, Peggy

21.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

22.
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

23.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

24.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

25.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

26.
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

27.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

28.
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

29.
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 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.

31.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

32.
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

33.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

34.
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

35.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

36.
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

37.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

38.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Herbert, A. P.

39.
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

40.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

41.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

42.
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

43.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

44.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

45.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

46.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor


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