Motivational Quotes

Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Solon

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

10.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

12.

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

Cousin, Victor

13.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

14.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

15.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

16.

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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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

18.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

19.

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

Marshalov, Boris

20.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baluch, Joy

25.

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

Reston, James

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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

27.

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

Melbourne, Lord

28.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

29.

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

Updike, John

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Pittacus

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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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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

41.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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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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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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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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