Motivational Quotes

Government

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

- Harry S Truman

Best Quotes about Government

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

Murray, Bill

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Fred Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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

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

Reston, James

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.

10.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Limbaugh, Rush

13.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Reston, James

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

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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

28.

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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Updike, John

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

38.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon