Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hume, David

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

Reston, James

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Solon

11.

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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Updike, John

29.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon 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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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.