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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
- Caldwell, John S.
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

2.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

3.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

4.
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
Nixon, Richard M.

5.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

6.
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

7.
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

8.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

9.
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

10.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Burns, George

11.
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

12.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Mirabeau, Comte De

13.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

14.
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.

15.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush

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

17.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

18.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

19.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon

20.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Einstein, Albert

21.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Rostand, Jean

23.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

24.
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

25.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John

26.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Friedman, Milton

27.
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

28.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

29.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

30.
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

31.
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

32.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray

33.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

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

35.
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

36.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

37.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

38.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

39.
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

40.
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

41.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

42.
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

43.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

44.
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

45.
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
Murray, Bill

46.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas

47.
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
Baxter, Beverley

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman


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