Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Reagan, Ronald

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Bob Wells

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Updike, John

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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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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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.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

George W. Bush

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

49.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.