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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.
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander

2.
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

3.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

4.
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
Murray, Bill

5.
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

6.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

7.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay

8.
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.

9.
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.

10.
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

11.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

12.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas

13.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.
Marshalov, Boris

14.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

16.
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

17.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
Beecher, Henry Ward

18.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

19.
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

20.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

21.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Burns, George

22.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De

23.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

24.
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

25.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

26.
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
Sade, Marquis De

27.
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.

28.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lapham, Lewis H.

29.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
Thomas Heatherwick

31.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Kocher, Gerhard

32.
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

33.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

34.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

35.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

36.
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
Baxter, Beverley

37.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

38.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

39.
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

40.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

41.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

42.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

43.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman

44.
You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Limbaugh, Rush

45.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

47.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

48.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

49.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

50.
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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