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

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

Truman, Harry S

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dulles, John Foster

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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

Friedman, Milton

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Voltaire

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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

Themistocles

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bob Wells

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Reston, James

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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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

Pittacus

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Fred Thompson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Melbourne, Lord

42.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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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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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

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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.