Motivational Quotes

Government

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

- William H. Borah

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Richard M. Nixon

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Reston, James

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

10.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

11.

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

H. L. Mencken

12.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

14.

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

Fred Thompson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

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

Bunting, Basil

19.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

20.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

21.

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

Themistocles

22.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Lawson, Nigel

28.

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

Jackson, Andrew

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

34.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Hume, David

37.

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

Bob Wells

38.

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

Marshalov, Boris

39.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

40.

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

Burns, George

41.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

44.

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

Murray, Bill

45.

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

Hospers, John

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

Baxter, Beverley

49.

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

Truman, Harry S

50.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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