Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Welch, Robert

Best Quotes about Government

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Themistocles

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pittacus

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

10.

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

11.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Durant, William J.

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

Bunting, Basil

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dulles, John Foster

28.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

31.

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

Welch, Robert

34.

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

Updike, John

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Lawson, Nigel

38.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Solon

42.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Cousin, Victor

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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