Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Voltaire

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

Jackson, Andrew

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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

11.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

12.

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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Durant, William J.

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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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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

18.

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

Cousin, Victor

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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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

21.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

22.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Bunting, Basil

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

28.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Friedman, Milton

32.

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

33.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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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

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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

40.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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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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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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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

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

Fred Thompson

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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.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald