Motivational Quotes

Government

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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 Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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

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

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

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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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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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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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

George W. Bush

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

Durant, William J.

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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

Bob Wells

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

Proverb, French

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.