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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
- Hamilton, Alexander
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Best Quotes about Government

1.
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

2.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

3.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

4.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

5.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Russell, Bertrand

6.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

7.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

8.
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

9.
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

10.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count

11.
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

12.
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

13.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

14.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Durant, William J.

15.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

16.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.
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

18.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

19.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

20.
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

21.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
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

23.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

24.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Updike, John

26.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

27.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

28.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German

29.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

30.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

31.
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

32.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

33.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon

34.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

35.
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

36.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

37.
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

38.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

39.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De

40.
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

41.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

46.
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

47.
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

48.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

49.
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

50.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew


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