Motivational Quotes

Government

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Government

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.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Durant, William J.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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 greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Reston, James

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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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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Melbourne, Lord

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Herbert, A. P.

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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David