Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Government

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

Limbaugh, Rush

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

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

Updike, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

11.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

12.

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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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Reston, James

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Caldwell, John S.

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.

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

25.

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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bertrand Russell

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

32.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Updike, John

34.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

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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

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

Reston, James

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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Solon

50.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury