Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Government

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Douglas, William O.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Fred Thompson

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

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

Bunting, Basil

10.

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.

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

20.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

21.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

23.

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

H. L. Mencken

24.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

25.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

28.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

29.

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

Herbert, A. P.

30.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

31.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

32.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

34.

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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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.

36.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

37.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

41.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

42.

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.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

44.

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