Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Pittacus

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Updike, John

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

11.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

12.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

13.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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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

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

23.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Durant, William J.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

28.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Marshalov, Boris

30.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Reston, James

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Solon

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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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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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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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

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.