Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

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

Cousin, Victor

16.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

17.

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

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

19.

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

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

22.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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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

24.

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

Updike, John

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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.

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

28.

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

Reston, James

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Douglas, William O.

33.

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

34.

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

Bertrand Russell

35.

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

Reston, James

36.

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

Burns, George

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

Richard M. Nixon

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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