Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Updike, John

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Welch, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

23.

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.

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Burns, George

28.

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

Richard M. Nixon

29.

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

Fred Thompson

30.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Pittacus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

39.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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

44.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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