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

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Voltaire

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

10.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

12.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

13.

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

Reagan, Ronald

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

17.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

23.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

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

27.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

28.

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

Richard M. Nixon

29.

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

Pittacus

30.

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

31.

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

Gladstone, William E.

32.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

33.

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

Marshalov, Boris

34.

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

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

37.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

44.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

45.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

47.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

48.

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

Baluch, Joy

49.

Fear is the foundation of most government.