Motivational Quotes

Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Reston, James

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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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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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Solon

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Truman, Harry S

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

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

Hume, David

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.