Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

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

Solon

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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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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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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 easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Updike, John

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Reagan, Ronald

32.

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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reston, James

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bob Wells

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

Updike, John

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