Motivational Quotes

Government

Any cook should be able to run the country.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Government

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Fred Thompson

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

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

10.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

11.

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

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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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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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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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

20.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

21.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

H. L. Mencken

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Amsterdam, Maury

35.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Bob Wells

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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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Lawson, Nigel

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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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

45.

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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

Voltaire

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

Reston, James

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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.

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.