Motivational Quotes

Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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.

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

Burns, George

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

10.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

17.

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

18.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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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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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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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

22.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reston, James

24.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

25.

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

Reston, James

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Melbourne, Lord

30.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

31.

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

Douglas, William O.

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

38.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

40.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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

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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

45.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

46.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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