Motivational Quotes

Government

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Pittacus

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Voltaire

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

Reston, James

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

Reston, James

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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

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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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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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 must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Friedman, Milton

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