Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Marshalov, Boris

Best Quotes about Government

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Melbourne, Lord

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Updike, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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

10.

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

Hume, David

12.

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

Burns, George

13.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

14.

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

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

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

Durant, William J.

18.

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

19.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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.

24.

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Crockett, Davy

28.

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

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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

32.

The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

33.

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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

35.

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

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

Herbert, A. P.

38.

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

Fred Thompson

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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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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

41.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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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.

43.

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Updike, John

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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.