Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Reston, James

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Russell, Bertrand

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Dulles, John Foster

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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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

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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Proverb, French

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Voltaire

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

Updike, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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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