Motivational Quotes

Government

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

- Tuchman, Barbara

Best Quotes about Government

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

Durant, William J.

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

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Bunting, Basil

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bob Wells

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

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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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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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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Welch, 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

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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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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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

31.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Safety of the state is the highest law.