Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Hume, David

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

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gladstone, William E.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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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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

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Burns, George

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bunting, Basil

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Bob Wells

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

Themistocles

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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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