Motivational Quotes

Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Government

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Voltaire

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Updike, John

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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.

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Bob Wells

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Truman, Harry S

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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.