Motivational Quotes

Government

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

George W. Bush

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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 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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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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

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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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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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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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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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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