Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Boytzwnburg, Count

Best Quotes about Government

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Voltaire

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Durant, William J.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Jackson, Andrew

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Solon

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Richard M. Nixon

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Truman, Harry S

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Reston, James

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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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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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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Fred Thompson

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

Bob Wells

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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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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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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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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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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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.