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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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

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

Cousin, Victor

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Herbert, A. P.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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

Pittacus

21.

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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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

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voltaire

26.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

28.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Welch, Robert

30.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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

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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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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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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

40.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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