Motivational Quotes

Government

Safety of the state is the highest law.

- Justinian

Best Quotes about Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Amsterdam, Maury

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Baluch, Joy

10.

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

Burns, George

11.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

12.

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

Kempton, Murray

13.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Durant, William J.

20.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Bunting, Basil

24.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

25.

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

Hume, David

27.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

34.

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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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

36.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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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

40.

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

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Bertrand Russell

45.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

46.

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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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

49.

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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay