Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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.

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

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Caldwell, John S.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Hume, David

12.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

13.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

14.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hospers, John

21.

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

Richard M. Nixon

22.

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

23.

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

24.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

25.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Friedman, Milton

32.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

36.

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

Pittacus

37.

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

38.

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

Marshalov, Boris

39.

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

40.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

41.

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

Murray, Bill

42.

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

Cousin, Victor

43.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

44.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

45.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

46.

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

47.

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

Welch, Robert

48.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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