Motivational Quotes

Government

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

- Harry S Truman

Best Quotes about Government

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Gladstone, William E.

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

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Lawson, Nigel

10.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

11.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

12.

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

Hume, David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

16.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Melbourne, Lord

20.

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

21.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

22.

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

23.

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

Jackson, Andrew

24.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

25.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

26.

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

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Richard M. Nixon

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

Updike, John

34.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

35.

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

36.

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

Reston, James

37.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

38.

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

39.

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

Douglas, William O.

40.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

41.

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

Bunting, Basil

42.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

43.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

45.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

46.

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

Herbert, A. P.

47.

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

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Reagan, Ronald

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