Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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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

11.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Baxter, Beverley

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Pittacus

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

Welch, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Updike, John

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

34.

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

Crockett, Davy

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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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

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark