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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Welch, Robert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Updike, John

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

Reston, James

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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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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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pittacus

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

Murray, Bill

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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