Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kempton, Murray

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Durant, William J.

27.

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

Updike, John

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Solon

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

Themistocles

33.

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

Welch, Robert

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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

Murray, Bill

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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.