Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Thomas Heatherwick

Best Quotes about Government

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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

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

Burns, George

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bob Wells

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

Updike, John

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Bunting, Basil

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Hospers, John

11.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

14.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

15.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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 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

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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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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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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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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Solon

28.

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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

Bertrand Russell

31.

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

Hume, David

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

36.

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

37.

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

Crockett, Davy

38.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

39.

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

Baluch, Joy

40.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

41.

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

Wallis, W. Allen

43.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

46.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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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

48.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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.

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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