Motivational Quotes

Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Government

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

Herbert, A. P.

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

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

Hume, David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fred Thompson

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Truman, Harry S

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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 government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Welch, Robert

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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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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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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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away