Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Voltaire

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Friedman, Milton

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cousin, Victor

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Durant, William J.

32.

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

Bob Wells

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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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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Fred Thompson

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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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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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