Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Government

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Douglas, William O.

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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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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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 dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Melbourne, Lord

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lawson, Nigel

34.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Updike, John

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

Bob Wells

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

Fred Thompson

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Durant, William J.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Crockett, Davy

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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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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

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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.