Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Friedman, Milton

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hume, David

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Caldwell, John S.

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Themistocles

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

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Updike, John

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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

32.

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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Updike, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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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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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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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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.

46.

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

Baluch, Joy

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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