Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Government

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Hume, David

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Reston, James

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Welch, Robert

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Bob Wells

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

Voltaire

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

Limbaugh, Rush