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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, French

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

Gardner, John W.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

10.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

11.

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

12.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

13.

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

Baxter, Beverley

14.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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

17.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

18.

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

Russell, Bertrand

19.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

20.

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

21.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

22.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Cousin, Victor

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

31.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Fred Thompson

34.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

35.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

43.

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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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reston, James

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De