Motivational Quotes

Government

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bob Wells

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

Bunting, Basil

10.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Welch, Robert

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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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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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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

21.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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

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

Fred Thompson

24.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

31.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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

50.

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