Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Lawson, Nigel

Best Quotes about Government

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Welch, Robert

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Kempton, Murray

11.

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

12.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

13.

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

14.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

15.

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

Baluch, Joy

16.

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.

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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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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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

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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

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

Bunting, Basil

32.

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

Reston, James

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

40.

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

Rostand, Jean

41.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Updike, John

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

45.

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.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thomas Heatherwick

48.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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Office without pay makes thieves.