Motivational Quotes

Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reston, James

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 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

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

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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Updike, John

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Durant, William J.

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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Proverb, French

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Hume, David

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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 cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Pittacus

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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