Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Wotton, Sir Henry

Best Quotes about 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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Cousin, Victor

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Updike, John

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Solon

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Marshalov, Boris

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Reston, James

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

Reston, James

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Voltaire

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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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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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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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

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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

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

Gladstone, William E.

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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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bob Wells

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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

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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.