Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Bob Wells

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Bertrand Russell

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

10.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

12.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Baxter, Beverley

16.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

17.

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

18.

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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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

21.

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.

22.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

23.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

24.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Baluch, Joy

27.

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

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

30.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

32.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

33.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

34.

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

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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

39.

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

Voltaire

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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

42.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

44.

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

Reston, James

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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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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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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

49.

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

Burns, George