Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Truman, Harry S

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

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

Updike, John

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Friedman, Milton

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

10.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

11.

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

Herbert, A. P.

12.

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

Melbourne, Lord

13.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

14.

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

Cousin, Victor

15.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

16.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

19.

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

Dulles, John Foster

20.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

26.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

27.

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

Jackson, Andrew

28.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

29.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

32.

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

33.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

34.

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

35.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

37.

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

Rostand, Jean

38.

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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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

40.

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

Lawson, Nigel

41.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

42.

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

Reston, James

43.

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

Burns, George

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

49.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

50.

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