Motivational Quotes

Government

An educated people can be easily governed.

- Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Best Quotes about Government

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

13.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Hospers, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

23.

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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bob Wells

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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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

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

Cousin, Victor

32.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

33.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

34.

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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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

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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

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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

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

Updike, John

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bunting, Basil

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Caldwell, John S.

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Boytzwnburg, Count