Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Government

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

Voltaire

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

Durant, William J.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Reston, James

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

Dulles, John Foster

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bunting, Basil

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Fred Thompson

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reston, James

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Proverb, French

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

Bob Wells

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

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

Solon

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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.