Motivational Quotes

Government

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Baxter, Beverley

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Cousin, Victor

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

22.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hume, David

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Baluch, Joy

33.

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

Fred Thompson

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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.