Motivational Quotes

Government

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

- Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Government

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

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

10.

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

Welch, Robert

11.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

12.

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

13.

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

Jackson, Andrew

14.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

16.

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

Solon

17.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

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

Herbert, A. P.

20.

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

Murray, Bill

21.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

24.

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

Lawson, Nigel

25.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

26.

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

Baluch, Joy

27.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

29.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

31.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

34.

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

35.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

37.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

39.

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

40.

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

Themistocles

41.

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

42.

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

Burns, George

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Richard M. Nixon

45.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic