Motivational Quotes

Government

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

- Harry S Truman

Best Quotes about Government

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

George W. Bush

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Updike, John

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bob Wells

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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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

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Solon

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.