Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Thomas Heatherwick

Best Quotes about Government

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Caldwell, John S.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Durant, William J.

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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Reston, James

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Truman, Harry S

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cousin, Victor

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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

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

Updike, John

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Voltaire

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon