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

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

Einstein, Albert

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

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

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

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

Cousin, Victor

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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Bob Wells

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Hume, David

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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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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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Fred Thompson

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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