Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Voltaire

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Welch, Robert

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

Kempton, Murray

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

10.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Herbert, A. P.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

23.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

28.

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.

29.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

30.

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

31.

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

Crockett, Davy

32.

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

Solon

33.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

34.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

36.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

37.

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

Jackson, Andrew

38.

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

39.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

40.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

41.

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

Burns, George

42.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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