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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

2.
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John

7.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

8.
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

9.
All good government must begin at home.
Haweis, H. R.

10.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

11.
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

12.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Friedman, Milton

13.
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

14.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

15.
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

16.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

17.
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

18.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

19.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

20.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

21.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

22.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

23.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

24.
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.

25.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

26.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

27.
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

28.
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

29.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

30.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Bunting, Basil

31.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

32.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

33.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Einstein, Albert

34.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lapham, Lewis H.

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

39.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

40.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.
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

42.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

43.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

44.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon

45.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

46.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew

48.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Baluch, Joy

49.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Amsterdam, Maury

50.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert


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