Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Wotton, Sir Henry

Best Quotes about Government

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Themistocles

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Bob Wells

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

Caldwell, John S.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Updike, John

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hume, David

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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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 government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Durant, William J.

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.