Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Reston, James

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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

Hume, David

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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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

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Welch, Robert

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon