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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

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

Themistocles

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

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

Solon

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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

11.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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 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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Friedman, Milton

30.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

31.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kempton, Murray

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cousin, Victor

41.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

44.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson