Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

10.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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

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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

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

21.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Hospers, John

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

28.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

35.

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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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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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

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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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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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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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

Updike, John

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

Friedman, Milton

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.