Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Government

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

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

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Herbert, A. P.

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

10.

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.

11.

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

Durant, William J.

12.

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

13.

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

Welch, Robert

14.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

17.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

18.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

H. L. Mencken

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

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

Reston, James

31.

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

Cousin, Victor

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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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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 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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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

39.

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

Bob Wells

40.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

45.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

46.

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

Fred Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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