Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hume, David

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Baxter, Beverley

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

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

Durant, William J.

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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Themistocles

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Hospers, John

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

Pittacus

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Douglas, William O.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Solon

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Friedman, Milton

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Gladstone, William E.