Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Burns, George

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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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Fred Thompson

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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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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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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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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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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 body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Pittacus

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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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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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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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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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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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

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush