Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Hospers, John

Best Quotes about Government

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Pittacus

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Friedman, Milton

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bunting, Basil

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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Richard M. Nixon

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Bob Wells

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Safety of the state is the highest law.