Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Caldwell, John S.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Voltaire

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

Updike, John

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

16.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

George W. Bush

21.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

22.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bunting, Basil

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Bob Wells

29.

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

Douglas, William O.

30.

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

Welch, Robert

31.

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

Friedman, Milton

32.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

33.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

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

Gladstone, William E.

35.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

36.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

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

38.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Herbert, A. P.

43.

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

44.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

45.

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

Richard M. Nixon

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Kempton, Murray

49.

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

50.

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