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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, French

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Reston, James

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

Voltaire

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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 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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murray, Bill

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Reston, James

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Voltaire

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

Fred Thompson

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

Russell, Bertrand