Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reston, James

Best Quotes about Government

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Cousin, Victor

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Themistocles

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Hume, David

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Updike, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lawson, Nigel

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Reston, James

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

33.

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

Bertrand Russell

34.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bunting, Basil

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.