Motivational Quotes

Government

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

- Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Government

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Bob Wells

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Cousin, Victor

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

10.

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

Reston, James

13.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

14.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Dulles, John Foster

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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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 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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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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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken