Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George W. Bush

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Murray, Bill

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reston, James

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Jackson, Andrew

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Marshalov, Boris

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Themistocles

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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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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Bob Wells

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.