Motivational Quotes

Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Bob Wells

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

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

Solon

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, French

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

Welch, Robert

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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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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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Updike, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bunting, Basil

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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

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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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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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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

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Voltaire

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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 constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.