Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

12.

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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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Welch, Robert

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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.

29.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

30.

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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

32.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

39.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

45.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

46.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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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 ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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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.