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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.
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Mirabeau, Comte De

2.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

3.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

4.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald

5.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

6.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Dulles, John Foster

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Herbert, A. P.

13.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De

14.
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

15.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

16.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray

17.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

18.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

19.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Reagan, Ronald

20.
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

21.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Bunting, Basil

22.
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

23.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

24.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Jefferson, Thomas

25.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

26.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

27.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Russell, Bertrand

28.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

30.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

31.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

32.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.
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

34.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

35.
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

36.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

37.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.
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

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Amsterdam, Maury

42.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

43.
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.

44.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

48.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

49.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

50.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon


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