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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Updike, John

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

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

10.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

11.

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

Douglas, William O.

12.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

13.

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

Reston, James

14.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Pittacus

17.

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

18.

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

Cousin, Victor

19.

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

20.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

21.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

23.

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

24.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

26.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

29.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

30.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

31.

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

Gardner, John W.

32.

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

Dulles, John Foster

33.

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

34.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

35.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

36.

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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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

40.

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

H. L. Mencken

41.

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

Themistocles

42.

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

Fred Thompson

43.

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

44.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

45.

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

Murray, Bill

46.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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

48.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

49.

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

Solon

50.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)