Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bob Wells

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

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

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pittacus

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thomas Heatherwick