Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reston, James

Best Quotes about Government

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Bob Wells

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Reston, James

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

22.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cousin, Victor

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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.

Einstein, Albert

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

Voltaire

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Melbourne, Lord