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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
Beecher, Henry Ward

2.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

3.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German

4.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

5.
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

6.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Durant, William J.

7.
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
Murray, Bill

8.
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

9.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

11.
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

12.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

13.
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

14.
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

15.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count

16.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

17.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray

18.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Amsterdam, Maury

19.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

20.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush

22.
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

23.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

24.
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

25.
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
Proverb, French

26.
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

27.
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

28.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

29.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

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

35.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

36.
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

37.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

38.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

39.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

40.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

41.
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

42.
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John

43.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Roosevelt, Theodore

44.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

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.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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