Motivational Quotes

Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Government

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Murray, Bill

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

11.

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

Dulles, John Foster

12.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Solon

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

Melbourne, Lord

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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.

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Updike, John

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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

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.