Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

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

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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

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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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Richard M. Nixon

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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

Welch, Robert

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durant, William J.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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