Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Douglas, William O.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Welch, Robert

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

Reston, James

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lawson, Nigel

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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 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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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

32.

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

Burns, George

33.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fred Thompson

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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Updike, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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The supply of government exceeds demand.