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

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Truman, Harry S

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Themistocles

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

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

Dulles, John Foster

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Welch, Robert

12.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Voltaire

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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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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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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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

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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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

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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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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

30.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

31.

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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 surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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.

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

Murray, Bill

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

Bob Wells

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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