Best Quotes about Government
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.
Noonan, Peggy
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor
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
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
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.
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
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
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
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
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
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Jefferson, Thomas
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David
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
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Rostand, Jean
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard
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
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De
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
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
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Durant, William J.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles
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
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.
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
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander
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
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius
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