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

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Baxter, Beverley

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Durant, William J.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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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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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Fred Thompson

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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 basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Solon

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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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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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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

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Pittacus

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

Marshalov, Boris

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S