Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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

Baluch, Joy

10.

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

Fred Thompson

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Voltaire

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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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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

22.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

23.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. 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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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Cousin, Victor

30.

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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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

33.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

34.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Voltaire

41.

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

Updike, John

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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