Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Melbourne, Lord

Best Quotes about Government

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.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Pittacus

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Melbourne, Lord

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Hospers, John

10.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

12.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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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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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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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

Baluch, Joy

24.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

28.

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

29.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

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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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

32.

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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

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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 government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Bastiat, Frederic

42.

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

Bob Wells

43.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

45.

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

Burns, George

46.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

50.

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