Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Friedman, Milton

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Updike, John

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.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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

Wallis, W. Allen

10.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Cousin, Victor

12.

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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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 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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

18.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

21.

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

Bob Wells

22.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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

28.

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

29.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Durant, William J.

37.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

39.

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

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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

41.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

42.

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

H. L. Mencken

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