Motivational Quotes

Government

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Government

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

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Kempton, Murray

12.

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

13.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

18.

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

19.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Melbourne, Lord

21.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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

23.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

27.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

28.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

30.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

31.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

33.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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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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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Durant, William J.

46.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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