Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Government

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

Truman, Harry S

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Voltaire

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

Pittacus

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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

Hospers, John

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Burns, George

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

Solon

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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