Motivational Quotes

Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, French

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Pittacus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Marshalov, Boris

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Reston, James

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Voltaire

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reston, James

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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 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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Murray, Bill

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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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

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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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