Motivational Quotes

Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Government

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

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

11.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

12.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

13.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

14.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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

18.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

Dulles, John Foster

20.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

21.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Richard M. Nixon

25.

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

Reagan, Ronald

29.

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

30.

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 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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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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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

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

35.

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

Burns, George

36.

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

37.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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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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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Truman, Harry S

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

44.

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

Baluch, Joy

45.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard