Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

23.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Bob Wells

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Marshalov, Boris

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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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

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Hospers, John

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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 the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire