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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
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

2.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon

3.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Bunting, Basil

4.
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

5.
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

6.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas

7.
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

8.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

9.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

10.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

11.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count

12.
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

13.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

14.
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

15.
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

16.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

17.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Reagan, Ronald

20.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Baluch, Joy

21.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

22.
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.

23.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

24.
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

25.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

27.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.
Baudrillard, Jean

28.
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

29.
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu

30.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Roosevelt, Theodore

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.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

33.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
Wallis, W. Allen

34.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

35.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

36.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick

37.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

39.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

40.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

41.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.
President Barack Obama

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

45.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Herbert, A. P.

46.
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

47.
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

48.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

49.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

50.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire


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