Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Melbourne, Lord

Best Quotes about Government

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

Reagan, Ronald

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Russell, Bertrand

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Dulles, John Foster

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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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

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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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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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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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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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.

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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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

38.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Fred Thompson

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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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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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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.