Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Government

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Fred Thompson

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

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

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

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

10.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

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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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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 function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Bob Wells

19.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

23.

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

Jackson, Andrew

24.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Thomas Heatherwick

32.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

33.

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

Hospers, John

34.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Updike, John

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

Pittacus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.