Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Marshalov, Boris

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Douglas, William O.

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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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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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reston, James

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

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

Baluch, Joy

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Roosevelt, Theodore

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Jackson, Andrew