Motivational Quotes

Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

- Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Best Quotes about Government

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

Updike, John

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jackson, Andrew

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

10.

The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

11.

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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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

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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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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Welch, Robert

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

29.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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

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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

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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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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Fred Thompson

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Durant, William J.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Friedman, Milton

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

49.

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

50.

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

Gladstone, William E.