Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Government

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Durant, William J.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Themistocles

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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 government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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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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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

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

Fred Thompson

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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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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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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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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Welch, Robert

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Dulles, John Foster

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold