Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Kocher, Gerhard

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

H. L. Mencken

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

Reston, James

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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

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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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