Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Reston, James

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Updike, John

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

11.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

Fred Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

17.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

19.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

21.

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

Baxter, Beverley

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

37.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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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 auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

42.

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

Burns, George

43.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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

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

Douglas, William O.