Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Thomas Heatherwick

Best Quotes about Government

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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

Kempton, Murray

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Friedman, Milton

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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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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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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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 auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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 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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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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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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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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