Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fred Thompson

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

Gardner, John W.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Burns, George

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

Hume, David

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Reston, James

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Themistocles

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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