Motivational Quotes

Government

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Pittacus

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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

13.

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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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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 are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Reston, James

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

Voltaire

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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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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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