Motivational Quotes

Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Friedman, Milton

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pittacus

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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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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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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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Solon

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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Bob Wells

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Douglas, William O.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Durant, William J.

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

Themistocles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.