Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bob Wells

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

George W. Bush

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

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Updike, John

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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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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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

Hume, David

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Fred Thompson

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry