Motivational Quotes

Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Government

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

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

Baxter, Beverley

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Hume, David

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

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

Welch, Robert

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bunting, Basil

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Proverb, French

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Cousin, Victor

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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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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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Updike, John

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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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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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.