Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cousin, Victor

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Douglas, William O.

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Voltaire

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

Dulles, John Foster

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Truman, Harry S

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