Motivational Quotes

Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

- Topes, Lord Justice

Best Quotes about Government

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

Themistocles

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, French

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Crockett, Davy

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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

Kempton, Murray

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

12.

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

14.

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

Marshalov, Boris

15.

A government is the only 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

17.

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

H. L. Mencken

18.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

19.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

22.

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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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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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

25.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Melbourne, Lord

28.

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

Reston, James

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

30.

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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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

34.

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

35.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Fred Thompson

46.

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

Voltaire

47.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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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 is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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