Motivational Quotes

Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Government

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

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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

Murray, Bill

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Solon

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Pittacus

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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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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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 whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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

Reston, James

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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

George W. Bush

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Baluch, Joy

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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