Motivational Quotes

Government

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about 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

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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.

10.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

11.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

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

Bunting, Basil

15.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

16.

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

Pittacus

17.

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

18.

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

Marshalov, Boris

19.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

20.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

21.

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

Fred Thompson

22.

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

23.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

24.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

25.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

27.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

28.

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

29.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

30.

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.

31.

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

Updike, John

32.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Friedman, Milton

36.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Themistocles

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Gardner, John W.

41.

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

42.

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

Reston, James

43.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

44.

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

45.

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

46.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

47.

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

Truman, Harry S

48.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

49.

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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian