Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Richard M. Nixon

Best Quotes about Government

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

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

Hume, David

13.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

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

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

17.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Burns, George

20.

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

21.

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

22.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

23.

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

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

26.

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

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

31.

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

Melbourne, Lord

32.

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

Durant, William J.

33.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

34.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

35.

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

Bob Wells

36.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Amsterdam, Maury

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

42.

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

Updike, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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

Einstein, Albert