Motivational Quotes

Government

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

- H. L. Mencken

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Bob Wells

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

Limbaugh, Rush

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Updike, John

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fred Thompson

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Hospers, John

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gardner, John W.

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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hume, David

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.