Motivational Quotes

Government

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bob Wells

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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

Proverb, French

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

Russell, Bertrand

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Hospers, John

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

11.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

12.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

13.

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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

15.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

17.

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

18.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

19.

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

20.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

21.

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

Reagan, Ronald

22.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

Cousin, Victor

24.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

28.

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

Durant, William J.

29.

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

30.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

32.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Douglas, William O.

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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

37.

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

38.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

39.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

41.

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

Welch, Robert

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

46.

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe