Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Themistocles

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Kocher, Gerhard

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Fred Thompson

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

Truman, Harry S

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

13.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

17.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

21.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

22.

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

Reston, James

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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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

27.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Solon

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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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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Hume, David

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Bertrand Russell