Motivational Quotes

Government

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Welch, Robert

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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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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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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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Reston, James

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.