Motivational Quotes

Government

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

- Douglas, William O.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Hospers, John

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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

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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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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Reston, James

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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 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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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 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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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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

Baluch, Joy

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bob Wells

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Voltaire