Motivational Quotes

Government

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Government

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Gardner, John W.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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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

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

Solon

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

Pittacus

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Friedman, Milton

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Updike, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fred Thompson

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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

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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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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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