Motivational Quotes

Government

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Murray, Bill

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Reston, James

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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

11.

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

Solon

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

17.

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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Welch, Robert

22.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

28.

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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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

32.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

34.

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

Crockett, Davy

35.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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

Hume, David

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

Reagan, Ronald

43.

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.

44.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.