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

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

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

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

Voltaire

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Themistocles

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

10.

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

Cousin, Victor

11.

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

Pittacus

13.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

14.

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

Bertrand Russell

15.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

22.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

23.

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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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

25.

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

26.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Durant, William J.

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

Dulles, John Foster

34.

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

Gladstone, William E.

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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