Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Bob Wells

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

George W. Bush

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

Welch, Robert

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

10.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

11.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Reston, James

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

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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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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

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Solon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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