Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Government

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Themistocles

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

Russell, Bertrand

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Kempton, Murray

12.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

13.

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

Durant, William J.

14.

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.

15.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Fred Thompson

17.

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

Truman, Harry S

18.

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

19.

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

H. L. Mencken

20.

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

21.

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

Crockett, Davy

22.

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

23.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

28.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

29.

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

30.

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

Bob Wells

31.

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

Friedman, Milton

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

34.

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

Hospers, John

35.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Richard M. Nixon

38.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

39.

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

Marshalov, Boris

40.

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

Herbert, A. P.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

44.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

45.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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

Jackson, Andrew

48.

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.

49.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

50.

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

Amsterdam, Maury