Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reston, James

Best Quotes about Government

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

Welch, Robert

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Reston, James

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

10.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

11.

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

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Reston, James

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

Jackson, Andrew

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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

21.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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

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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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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

28.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

29.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Limbaugh, Rush

34.

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

Cousin, Victor

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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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

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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

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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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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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

43.

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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

48.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius