Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Durant, William J.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Baluch, Joy

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.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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

11.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reston, James

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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.

18.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Updike, John

22.

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

Jackson, Andrew

23.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

28.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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

49.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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