Motivational Quotes

Government

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

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.

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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Welch, Robert

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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

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

Pittacus

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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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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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

Proverb, French

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

Voltaire

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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