Motivational Quotes

Government

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Government

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

Cousin, Victor

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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

Caldwell, John S.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Fred Thompson

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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.

William H. Borah

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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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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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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