Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Government

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Pittacus

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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

11.

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

Solon

12.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

14.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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

18.

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

Baxter, Beverley

19.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

20.

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

21.

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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

Bastiat, Frederic

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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

31.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

32.

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

Melbourne, Lord

33.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

34.

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

35.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

38.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Hospers, John

40.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

43.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

44.

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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Kempton, Murray

50.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire