Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Herbert, A. P.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bob Wells

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Reston, James

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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

Hume, David

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Pittacus

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Solon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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

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

Reston, James

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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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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Updike, John

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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