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

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

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Einstein, Albert

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

10.

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

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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

12.

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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

20.

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

Baluch, Joy

21.

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

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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 is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

25.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Herbert, A. P.

28.

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

Pittacus

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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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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

31.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

33.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

34.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

39.

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

Fred Thompson

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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