Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Melbourne, Lord

Best Quotes about Government

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Voltaire

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Caldwell, John S.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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

12.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Durant, William J.

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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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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

22.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

23.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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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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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

31.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Dulles, John Foster

33.

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

34.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

40.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Hospers, John

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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