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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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Best Quotes about Government

1.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.
The basis of effective government is public confidence.
Kennedy, John F.

3.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Reagan, Ronald

4.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Ford, Gerald R.

5.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Einstein, Albert

6.
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

7.
I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.
Crossman, Richard

8.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Crockett, Davy

9.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Jefferson, Thomas

10.
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

11.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Friedman, Milton

12.
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

13.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Lawson, Nigel

14.
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Douglas, William O.

15.
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

16.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson

17.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Topes, Lord Justice

18.
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

19.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Gardner, John W.

20.
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
Baxter, Beverley

21.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Kempton, Murray

22.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Balzac, Honore De

23.
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Wotton, Sir Henry

24.
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

25.
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Washington, George

26.
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

27.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
Shaw, George Bernard

28.
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

29.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Jefferson, Thomas

30.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Bastiat, Frederic

31.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Dulles, John Foster

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

36.
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

37.
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

38.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Rostand, Jean

39.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

40.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Melbourne, Lord

41.
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

42.
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

43.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Updike, John

44.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

45.
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.
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

47.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Reston, James

48.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates

49.
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

50.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Chapman, John Jay


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