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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
Government Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Government

1.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas

2.
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Adams, John

3.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Jackson, Andrew

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Russell, Bertrand

8.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray

9.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Reagan, Ronald

10.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus

11.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

12.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Rostand, Jean

13.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

14.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

15.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Kocher, Gerhard

16.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Welch, Robert

17.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

18.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

19.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Nepos, Cornelius

20.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Burns, George

21.
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

22.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles

23.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Hamilton, Alexander

24.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush

25.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

26.
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Sir Winston Churchill

27.
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

28.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

29.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Baluch, Joy

30.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian

31.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Hume, David

32.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Twain, Mark

33.
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

34.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

35.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Caldwell, John S.

36.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

37.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Friedman, Milton

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

39.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

40.
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

41.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

43.
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

44.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.
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

46.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

49.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Truman, Harry S

50.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Johnson, Samuel


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