Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

11.

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

16.

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

17.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

18.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Friedman, Milton

20.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

21.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Bob Wells

24.

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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

28.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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.

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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

32.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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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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

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Russell, Bertrand

43.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

48.

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