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

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

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reston, James

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Burns, George

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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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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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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

Durant, William J.

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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

Themistocles

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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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Bob Wells

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

Rostand, Jean