Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Cousin, Victor

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Baxter, Beverley

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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 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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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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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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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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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Pittacus

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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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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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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Voltaire

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Jefferson, Thomas