Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Burns, George

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Fred Thompson

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

Voltaire

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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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