Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Murray, Bill

Best Quotes about Government

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Fred Thompson

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

Themistocles

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

Gardner, John W.

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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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Macaulay, Thomas 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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Solon

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

Reston, James

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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

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Pittacus

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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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 supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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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

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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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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas