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

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

Burns, George

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Voltaire

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Jackson, Andrew

10.

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

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

12.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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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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

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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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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

19.

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

Gardner, John W.

20.

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.

21.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

22.

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

Solon

25.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Marshalov, Boris

30.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

31.

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

32.

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

Themistocles

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

35.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

38.

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

Baxter, Beverley

39.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

Baluch, Joy

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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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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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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Durant, William J.

49.

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

Russell, Bertrand