Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

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

Durant, William J.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Welch, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kempton, Murray

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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

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

Crockett, Davy

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Updike, John

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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

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pittacus

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

30.

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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Douglas, William O.

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian