Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bob Wells

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kempton, Murray

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

11.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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

Jackson, Andrew

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Durant, William J.

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

Pittacus

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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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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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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