Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bertrand Russell

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Hospers, John

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

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

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

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

11.

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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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

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

Updike, John

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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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

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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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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

26.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Reston, James

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

Kempton, Murray

29.

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

Hume, David

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Welch, Robert

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Gardner, John W.

44.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.