Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Limbaugh, Rush

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Voltaire

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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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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Voltaire

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reston, James

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Crockett, Davy

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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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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.