Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Murray, Bill

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Caldwell, John S.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Welch, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bob Wells

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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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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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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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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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

Bunting, Basil

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pittacus

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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reston, James

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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