Motivational Quotes

Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

- Topes, Lord Justice

Best Quotes about Government

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Durant, William J.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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

Reston, James

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

Reston, James

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Themistocles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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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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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Caldwell, John S.