Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Marshalov, Boris

Best Quotes about Government

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kempton, Murray

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

George W. Bush

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

10.

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

Hume, David

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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

Solon

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Voltaire

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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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