Motivational Quotes

Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Fred Thompson

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

Themistocles

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Voltaire

11.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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

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

Reston, James

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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 government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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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

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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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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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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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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

28.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hume, David

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