Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bertrand Russell

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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

14.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

15.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Durant, William J.

18.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

19.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

20.

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.

21.

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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

25.

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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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

40.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

43.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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