Motivational Quotes

Government

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

- Amsterdam, Maury

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

George W. Bush

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Gardner, John W.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

18.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Truman, Harry S

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Fred Thompson

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Themistocles

27.

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

Pittacus

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

Hume, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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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 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

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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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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.

40.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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

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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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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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