Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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 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

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

13.

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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Reston, James

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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Updike, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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