Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Voltaire

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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 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

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

Updike, John

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Voltaire

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

Reagan, Ronald

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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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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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.