Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Wotton, Sir Henry

Best Quotes about Government

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Murray, Bill

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

Themistocles

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Crockett, Davy

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We have the best government that money can buy.