Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Murray, Bill

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.

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

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Welch, Robert

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Limbaugh, Rush

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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

11.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

12.

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

Gardner, John W.

13.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

19.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

23.

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

Melbourne, Lord

24.

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

Baluch, Joy

25.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

28.

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

34.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

37.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

38.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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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

40.

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

Reston, James

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.