Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reston, James

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Murray, Bill

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

Kempton, Murray

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

28.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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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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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.