Motivational Quotes

Government

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

- Douglas, William O.

Best Quotes about Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Pittacus

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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 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 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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reston, James

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durant, William J.

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas