Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Cousin, Victor

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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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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.

38.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

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

Updike, John

44.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas