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

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

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Updike, John

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

Solon

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

Caldwell, John S.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Updike, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Douglas, William O.

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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

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Friedman, Milton

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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.

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

Reston, James

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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bunting, Basil

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Themistocles

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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 whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.