Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Updike, John

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

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Baluch, Joy

10.

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

Jackson, Andrew

11.

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

12.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

13.

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

14.

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

Richard M. Nixon

15.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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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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

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

20.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

21.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

22.

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

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

Friedman, Milton

24.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

25.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Bob Wells

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

31.

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

32.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

33.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

35.

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

Hume, David

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

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

38.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Solon

40.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

41.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

45.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

46.

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

Burns, George

47.

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.

48.

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

Bertrand Russell

50.

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