Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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.

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

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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 can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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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

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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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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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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Welch, Robert

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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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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Herbert, A. P.

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Durant, William J.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Hume, David