Motivational Quotes

Government

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Government

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Durant, William J.

10.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

11.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

12.

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

13.

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

Bob Wells

14.

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

15.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

21.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

23.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

24.

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

Reagan, Ronald

25.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

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

30.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

31.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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.

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

Baluch, Joy

41.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

42.

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.

43.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

46.

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

47.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

48.

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

49.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

50.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.