Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Welch, Robert

Best Quotes about Government

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

Pittacus

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Welch, Robert

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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 are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

Updike, John

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Melbourne, Lord

20.

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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

26.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

30.

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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hume, David

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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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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

35.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis 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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

40.

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

Bob Wells

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

42.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

43.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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

48.

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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.