Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Mirabeau, Comte De

Best Quotes about Government

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Murray, Bill

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

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fred Thompson

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

14.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Solon

18.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

19.

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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

21.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

23.

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

Baxter, Beverley

24.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

25.

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

Updike, John

26.

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

27.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

28.

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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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

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

31.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

32.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

33.

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

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

36.

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

Burns, George

37.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

38.

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

39.

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

Updike, John

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

Durant, William J.

41.

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

42.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

43.

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

44.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

45.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

47.

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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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

49.

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Reagan, Ronald