Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Wallis, W. Allen

Best Quotes about Government

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

Murray, Bill

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Voltaire

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

Bob Wells

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Welch, Robert

10.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

11.

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

12.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Durant, William J.

14.

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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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

17.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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

21.

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

Kempton, Murray

22.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

23.

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

Baluch, Joy

24.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

25.

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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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

27.

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

Baxter, Beverley

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

31.

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

Bunting, Basil

33.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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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

35.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

37.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

38.

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

Reagan, Ronald

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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

43.

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

Herbert, A. P.

44.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

45.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Douglas, William O.

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian