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

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Jefferson, Thomas

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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

Voltaire

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Burns, George

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

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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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 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

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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

13.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

18.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

19.

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

Pittacus

20.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

22.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Dulles, John Foster

26.

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

Fred Thompson

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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

28.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Marshalov, Boris

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bunting, Basil

40.

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

Voltaire

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

Welch, Robert

44.

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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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Durant, William J.

48.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.