Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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

Burns, George

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

11.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

12.

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

Baluch, Joy

13.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Themistocles

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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

17.

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

Jackson, Andrew

18.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

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 government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

23.

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

Gladstone, William E.

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

27.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

28.

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

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

30.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

31.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

32.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

33.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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

35.

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

Voltaire

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

Updike, John

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

39.

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

40.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

41.

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

Gardner, John W.

42.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

43.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

44.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

45.

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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

48.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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