Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Baluch, Joy

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

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Gladstone, William E.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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

Burns, George

10.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

11.

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

12.

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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

25.

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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Marshalov, Boris

28.

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

Pittacus

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Updike, John

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

Cousin, Victor

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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

45.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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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.

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