Motivational Quotes

Government

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Government

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.

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Reston, James

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Reston, James

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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.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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

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

Themistocles

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

29.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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