Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Pittacus

Best Quotes about Government

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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

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

Einstein, Albert

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

Durant, William J.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Welch, Robert

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Hume, David

14.

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.

15.

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

Rostand, Jean

16.

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

17.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

20.

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

21.

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

22.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

23.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

24.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

Updike, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Crockett, Davy

34.

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

Gladstone, William E.

35.

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

36.

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

Baxter, Beverley

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

40.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

41.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

45.

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

Herbert, A. P.

46.

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