Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Lawson, Nigel

Best Quotes about Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Wallis, W. Allen

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Jackson, Andrew

12.

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

Bob Wells

13.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

15.

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

Bunting, Basil

16.

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

Hume, David

17.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

18.

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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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

20.

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

Durant, William J.

21.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

22.

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

23.

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

Cousin, Victor

24.

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

25.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

26.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

27.

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

28.

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

Friedman, Milton

29.

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

Solon

30.

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

Reston, James

31.

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

32.

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

Melbourne, Lord

33.

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.

34.

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

Gardner, John W.

35.

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

36.

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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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

39.

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

40.

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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

44.

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

George W. Bush

45.

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

46.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

47.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

48.

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

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Bertrand Russell