Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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

Updike, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

10.

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

11.

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

Solon

12.

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

Updike, John

13.

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

Herbert, A. P.

14.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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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 educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

18.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

21.

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

Fred Thompson

22.

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

Bunting, Basil

23.

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

24.

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

Richard M. Nixon

25.

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

Pittacus

26.

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

27.

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

Kempton, Murray

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

34.

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

35.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

36.

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

Lawson, Nigel

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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

40.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

41.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Truman, Harry S

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

46.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Reagan, Ronald

48.

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

49.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

50.

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

Limbaugh, Rush