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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Pittacus

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

Rostand, Jean

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

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

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

Hume, David

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

10.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

11.

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

24.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

29.

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

Baluch, Joy

30.

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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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

Baxter, Beverley

33.

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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

H. L. Mencken

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire