Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Government

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

Herbert, A. P.

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.

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kocher, Gerhard

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

11.

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

Douglas, William O.

12.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

13.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

14.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

15.

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

Richard M. Nixon

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

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

Bob Wells

19.

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

Burns, George

20.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Friedman, Milton

22.

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

Reston, James

23.

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

24.

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

Crockett, Davy

25.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Cousin, Victor

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

30.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

31.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

32.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

33.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

36.

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

Reston, James

37.

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

38.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

41.

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

42.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

47.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

Welch, Robert

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

50.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore