Motivational Quotes

Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bob Wells

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

Welch, Robert

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Durant, William J.

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

Cousin, Victor

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jackson, Andrew