Motivational Quotes

Government

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

- H. L. Mencken

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Gardner, John W.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Reagan, Ronald

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Bertrand Russell

12.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Updike, John

15.

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

16.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Themistocles

21.

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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Pittacus

26.

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

Crockett, Davy

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

29.

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

Murray, Bill

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

33.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

34.

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

Baluch, Joy

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

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

Welch, Robert

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

44.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

46.

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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

49.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

50.

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

Gladstone, William E.