Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Burns, George

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

Bob Wells

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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.

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

Friedman, Milton

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Durant, William J.

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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 care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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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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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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

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

Reston, James

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

Reagan, Ronald

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