Motivational Quotes

Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Proverb, French

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Bunting, Basil

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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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reston, James

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hume, David

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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 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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Bob Wells

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

Voltaire

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

George W. Bush

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

Burns, George

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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

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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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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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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

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Baluch, Joy

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Durant, William J.

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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 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