Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Updike, John

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

11.

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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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 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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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

15.

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

22.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

23.

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

Bob Wells

27.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

29.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

30.

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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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

32.

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

Gardner, John W.

33.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

34.

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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

38.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

40.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

41.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Voltaire

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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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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