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The basis of effective government is public confidence.
- Kennedy, John F.
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Best Quotes about Government

1.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

2.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

3.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Gladstone, William E.

4.
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

5.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

6.
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

7.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German

8.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Mirabeau, Comte De

9.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Hospers, John

10.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lapham, Lewis H.

11.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

12.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Madison, James

13.
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

14.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

15.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor

16.
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

17.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Reagan, Ronald

18.
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

19.
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

20.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

21.
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
Proverb, French

22.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

23.
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Wilson, Harold

24.
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

25.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

26.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

27.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

28.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

29.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

30.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

31.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

32.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Baluch, Joy

33.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

34.
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

35.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

36.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

37.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

39.
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.

40.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
Wallis, W. Allen

41.
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

42.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

43.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

44.
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

45.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

46.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas

47.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

48.
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

49.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.
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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