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.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Fred Thompson

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Dulles, John Foster

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pittacus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bob Wells

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Reston, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Solon

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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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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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Durant, William J.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Themistocles

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

Melbourne, Lord

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Voltaire

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel