Motivational Quotes

Government

Fear is the foundation of most government.

- Adams, John

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

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

George W. Bush

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Murray, Bill

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

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Pittacus

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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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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

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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

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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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

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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

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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

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

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

Themistocles

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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

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Voltaire

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

48.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.