Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Richard M. Nixon

Best Quotes about Government

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Reston, James

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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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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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wallis, W. Allen

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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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.