Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Caldwell, John S.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

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

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

Bob Wells

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Durant, William J.

12.

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

Crockett, Davy

13.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

19.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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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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

22.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

24.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

28.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

29.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

30.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

31.

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

Themistocles

32.

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

Pittacus

33.

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

34.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

36.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

37.

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

38.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

39.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

40.

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

Baluch, Joy

41.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

42.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

43.

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

44.

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Hume, David

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon