Motivational Quotes

Government

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

- Hospers, John

Best Quotes about Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Pittacus

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

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

10.

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

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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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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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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

16.

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

Durant, William J.

18.

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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Richard M. Nixon

21.

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

Baluch, Joy

22.

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

Caldwell, John S.

23.

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

Marshalov, Boris

24.

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

Herbert, A. P.

25.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

27.

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

Themistocles

28.

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

Solon

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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

30.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

32.

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

Bunting, Basil

33.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Reagan, Ronald

37.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

38.

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

39.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

40.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

45.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew