Motivational Quotes

Government

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

- Ford, Gerald R.

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

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bunting, Basil

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

12.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

13.

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

Melbourne, Lord

14.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

15.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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.

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Welch, Robert

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

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

Updike, John

29.

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

Baluch, Joy

32.

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

Bertrand Russell

33.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

34.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

42.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Bob Wells

46.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Limbaugh, Rush

50.

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