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

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hume, David

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Bunting, Basil

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

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

Themistocles

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Fred Thompson

13.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Cousin, Victor

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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.

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Baluch, Joy

31.

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

Voltaire

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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

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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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pittacus

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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

Burns, George

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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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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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Solon

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