Motivational Quotes

Government

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.

Best Quotes about Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gardner, John W.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Caldwell, John S.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Douglas, William O.

11.

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

Melbourne, Lord

12.

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

H. L. Mencken

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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

14.

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

Welch, Robert

15.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fred Thompson

25.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

28.

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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

32.

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

33.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

34.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

35.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 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.

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

Baluch, Joy

40.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

41.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

42.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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

44.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Updike, John