Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reston, James

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

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

Solon

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempton, Murray

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bob Wells

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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

Hume, David

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

Voltaire

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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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 government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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