Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Government

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Murray, Bill

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Hospers, John

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Voltaire

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

Welch, Robert

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Hume, David

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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 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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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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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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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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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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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

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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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 art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Marshalov, Boris

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Douglas, William O.

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Voltaire

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Fear is the foundation of most government.