Motivational Quotes

Government

The supply of government exceeds demand.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Burns, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Gladstone, William E.

12.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

13.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

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

Reston, James

21.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

23.

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

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

31.

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

Welch, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Solon

40.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pittacus

42.

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

43.

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

Reston, James

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

45.

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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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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