Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Friedman, Milton

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Cousin, Victor

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

10.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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 hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Voltaire

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Reston, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

27.

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

Bob Wells

28.

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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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

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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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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

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Jackson, Andrew

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Reston, James

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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

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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

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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 can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Kocher, Gerhard