Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Updike, John

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pittacus

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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

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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Reston, James

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Douglas, William O.

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.