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Best Quotes about Government

1.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

2.
You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Limbaugh, Rush

3.
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

4.
All good government must begin at home.
Haweis, H. R.

5.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

6.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

7.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John

8.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Jefferson, Thomas

9.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

10.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Baluch, Joy

11.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

12.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

14.
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

15.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

16.
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.

17.
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

18.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

19.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

21.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

26.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander

27.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Burns, George

28.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

29.
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

30.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick

31.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas

32.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

33.
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

34.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

35.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Herbert, A. P.

39.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

40.
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

41.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

42.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

43.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
Beecher, Henry Ward

44.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

46.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

47.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

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

49.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German

50.
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


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