Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Voltaire

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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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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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Wallis, W. Allen

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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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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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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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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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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

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Heinlein, Robert

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voltaire

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

Reston, James

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.