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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
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
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry
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
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
Office without pay makes thieves.
Proverb, German
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Douglas, William O.
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
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay
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.
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
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark
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.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Mirabeau, Comte De
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Cousin, Victor
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
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
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert
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
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard
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
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 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
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Boytzwnburg, Count
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
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic
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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