Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

H. L. Mencken

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

10.

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

Themistocles

11.

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

Fred Thompson

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Updike, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Bunting, Basil

23.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

34.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Voltaire

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Einstein, Albert

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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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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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