Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

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

Baluch, Joy

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Marshalov, Boris

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Solon

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

Updike, John

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Durant, William J.

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

Welch, Robert

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Voltaire

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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 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

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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