Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Cousin, Victor

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

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Friedman, Milton

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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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

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Voltaire

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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

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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

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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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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

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Bertrand Russell

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fred Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pittacus

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