Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Government

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fred Thompson

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Proverb, French

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Reston, James

15.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

16.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

22.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

Richard M. Nixon

25.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

26.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

27.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

31.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

37.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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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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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

42.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

43.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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