Motivational Quotes

Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Government

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

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

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

10.

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

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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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

Durant, William J.

15.

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 mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

18.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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

21.

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

Updike, John

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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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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

24.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

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

Herbert, A. P.

26.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

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

Solon

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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

Marshalov, Boris

49.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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