Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Durant, William J.

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

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

Pittacus

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

Themistocles

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Hospers, John

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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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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

17.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

20.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Voltaire

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hume, David

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

Bob Wells

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

H. L. Mencken

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Murray, Bill

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

Cousin, Victor

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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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