Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Hospers, John

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

Hume, David

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Reagan, Ronald

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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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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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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon