Motivational Quotes

Government

It is easy to rule over the good.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Government

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Durant, William J.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

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

Bunting, Basil

11.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Pittacus

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Hume, David

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

Updike, John

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

Voltaire

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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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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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.

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Updike, John

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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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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Bob Wells

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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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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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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark