Motivational Quotes

Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Government

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Marshalov, Boris

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire

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

Pittacus

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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

Updike, John

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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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