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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Reston, James

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Melbourne, Lord

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

10.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

11.

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

12.

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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Fred Thompson

18.

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

Marshalov, Boris

19.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

21.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Bunting, Basil

24.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

25.

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

Jackson, Andrew

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

33.

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

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

35.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

36.

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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

40.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

41.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

42.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Voltaire

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

Welch, Robert

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