Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Baluch, Joy

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Themistocles

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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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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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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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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Einstein, Albert

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

34.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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

Durant, William J.

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

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon