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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

14.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Solon

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Baluch, Joy

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

31.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

32.

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

Bertrand Russell

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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 art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

36.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Marshalov, Boris

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Reston, James

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

Updike, John

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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Durant, William J.

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

Kocher, Gerhard