Motivational Quotes

Government

Safety of the state is the highest law.

- Justinian

Best Quotes about Government

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

Jefferson, Thomas

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Durant, William J.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Hume, David

15.

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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Melbourne, Lord

20.

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

Murray, Bill

21.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

22.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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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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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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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, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

33.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

44.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

45.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Reston, James

49.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

50.

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