Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Government

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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.

Crockett, Davy

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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Baluch, Joy

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

18.

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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fred Thompson

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Friedman, Milton

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

38.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bob Wells

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Pittacus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Dulles, John Foster