Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

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

Durant, William J.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

10.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

11.

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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

19.

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

Solon

20.

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

Themistocles

21.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bunting, Basil

26.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

30.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Jackson, Andrew

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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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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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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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Richard M. Nixon

40.

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

Burns, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Updike, John

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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

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