Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Marshalov, Boris

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Douglas, William O.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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

Burns, George

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Durant, William J.

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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

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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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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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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

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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

Reston, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hume, David

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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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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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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Truman, Harry S

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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