Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- George W. Bush

Best Quotes about Government

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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

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

Reston, James

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bunting, Basil

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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

15.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

19.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

22.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

23.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

25.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richard M. Nixon

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

32.

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

Welch, Robert

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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.