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

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

Reagan, Ronald

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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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

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Updike, John

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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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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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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.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Themistocles

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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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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

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

Baluch, Joy