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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Bob Wells

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

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

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

Truman, Harry S

10.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

11.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reston, James

16.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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

18.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Richard M. Nixon

20.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

21.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Updike, John

26.

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

Solon

27.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

28.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

29.

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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

35.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

36.

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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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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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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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

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Updike, 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