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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

2.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

3.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew

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.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

6.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush

7.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

9.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

13.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Mirabeau, Comte De

14.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard

15.
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

16.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.
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

18.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

19.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Friedman, Milton

20.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

21.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Russell, Bertrand

22.
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

23.
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

24.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

25.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

26.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

27.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald

28.
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

29.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

31.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

32.
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

33.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

34.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

35.
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

36.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

37.
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

38.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

40.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

41.
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

42.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

43.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Jefferson, Thomas

44.
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Douglas, William O.

45.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

46.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

47.
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

48.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lapham, Lewis H.

49.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas

50.
All good government must begin at home.
Haweis, H. R.


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