Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Murray, Bill

Best Quotes about Government

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hospers, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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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

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Updike, John

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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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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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

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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

31.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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

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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.

Baxter, Beverley

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

H. L. Mencken

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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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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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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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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Themistocles

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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 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

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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

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Updike, John

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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