Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Caldwell, John S.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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

11.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Voltaire

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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

18.

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

Herbert, A. P.

19.

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

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

Updike, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

26.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Reagan, Ronald

28.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

29.

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

30.

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

H. L. Mencken

31.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

33.

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

Cousin, Victor

34.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

35.

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

Baluch, Joy

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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.

38.

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

Welch, Robert

40.

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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

42.

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

George W. Bush

43.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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.

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

Bob Wells

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

48.

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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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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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