Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Durant, William J.

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

Crockett, Davy

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

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

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

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.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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 government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Themistocles

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Updike, John

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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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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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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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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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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