Motivational Quotes

Government

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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

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

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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Hume, David

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Fred Thompson

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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

Reston, James

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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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

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

Welch, Robert

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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