Motivational Quotes

Government

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

- Crockett, Davy

Best Quotes about Government

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

Welch, Robert

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

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Cousin, Victor

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lawson, Nigel

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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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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.

Harry S Truman

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Bob Wells

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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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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Voltaire

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.