Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Caldwell, John S.

Best Quotes about Government

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Baxter, Beverley

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Solon

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

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

Gardner, John W.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

10.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

Melbourne, Lord

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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

Updike, John

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

20.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

24.

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

25.

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

Reagan, Ronald

26.

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

Baluch, Joy

27.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

28.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Herbert, A. P.

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Hume, David

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

38.

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

H. L. Mencken

39.

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

Bob Wells

40.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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.

42.

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

Marshalov, Boris

43.

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

44.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

45.

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

46.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Themistocles