Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Government

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

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

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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 whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Pittacus

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

Solon

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bertrand Russell

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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

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

Fred Thompson

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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