Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Caldwell, John S.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Updike, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Amsterdam, Maury

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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

Solon

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

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

10.

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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bob Wells

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bertrand Russell

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reston, James

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

Voltaire

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.