Motivational Quotes

Government

Office without pay makes thieves.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Government

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

Gladstone, William E.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reston, James

17.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Jackson, Andrew

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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

Bob Wells

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Solon

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Reston, James

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

42.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pittacus

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.