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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
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

2.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Burns, George

4.
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

5.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

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

7.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
Wallis, W. Allen

8.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Roosevelt, Theodore

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

10.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

11.
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

12.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

13.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Reagan, Ronald

14.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.
Baudrillard, Jean

15.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Rostand, Jean

16.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

17.
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

18.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

19.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Durant, William J.

20.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew

21.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

22.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

23.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

24.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

25.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Johnson, Samuel

27.
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John

28.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

29.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard

31.
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

32.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
Shaw, George Bernard

33.
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

34.
It is easy to rule over the good.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.
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

36.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

37.
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

38.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Bunting, Basil

39.
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

40.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

41.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

42.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

43.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

44.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

45.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

46.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Einstein, Albert

47.
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

48.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

49.
All good government must begin at home.
Haweis, H. R.

50.
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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