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

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

Fred Thompson

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Themistocles

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Pittacus

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De