Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solon

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hume, David

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Heinlein, Robert

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Reston, James

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Burns, George

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

Pittacus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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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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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