Motivational Quotes

Government

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.

Best Quotes about Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Voltaire

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Bob Wells

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Welch, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reston, James

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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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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