Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Baluch, Joy

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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

11.

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

Bob Wells

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Updike, John

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

18.

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

Gardner, John W.

19.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Cousin, Victor

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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