Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Truman, Harry S

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Solon

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Voltaire

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

Updike, John

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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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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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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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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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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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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