Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Caldwell, John S.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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

10.

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

Updike, John

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Cousin, Victor

13.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pittacus

17.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

18.

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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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

20.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

23.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

24.

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

Herbert, A. P.

25.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

26.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

30.

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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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

32.

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

Jackson, Andrew

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Douglas, William O.

35.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Updike, John

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

41.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

46.

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

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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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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 government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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