Motivational Quotes

Government

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Government

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Voltaire

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

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

George W. Bush

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

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

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

11.

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

12.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

13.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

19.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

20.

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

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

22.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Bob Wells

27.

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

28.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

29.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

30.

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

31.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

32.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Crockett, Davy

35.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

37.

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

Caldwell, John S.

38.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

39.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

40.

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

Burns, George

41.

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

Welch, Robert

42.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

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

44.

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

Truman, Harry S

45.

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

46.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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