Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Murray, Bill

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Voltaire

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

Pittacus

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 government action.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Burns, George

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Bunting, Basil

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Safety of the state is the highest law.