Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Voltaire

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

Burns, George

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Dulles, John Foster

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Welch, Robert

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

Hume, David

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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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

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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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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bob Wells

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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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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