Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Hospers, John

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

Crockett, Davy

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

Kempton, Murray

10.

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

Pittacus

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

15.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

16.

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

17.

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

Fred Thompson

18.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

19.

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

20.

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

H. L. Mencken

21.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

22.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

23.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

25.

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

Marshalov, Boris

26.

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

Melbourne, Lord

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

29.

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

Dulles, John Foster

30.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

34.

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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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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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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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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The supply of government exceeds demand.