Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Herbert, A. P.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Burns, George

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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

Hume, David

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Baxter, Beverley

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Durant, William J.

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Friedman, Milton

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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