Motivational Quotes

Government

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Government

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

Hospers, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hume, David

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

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

10.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Melbourne, Lord

17.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Welch, Robert

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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

Friedman, Milton

23.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

24.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

25.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

26.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

29.

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

30.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

31.

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

Dulles, John Foster

32.

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

33.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

35.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Bob Wells

38.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

41.

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

Fred Thompson

42.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

43.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

44.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

47.

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

48.

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