Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Government

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jackson, Andrew

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Cousin, Victor

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Marshalov, Boris

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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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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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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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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

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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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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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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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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

39.

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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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