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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solon

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Updike, John

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Pittacus

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama