Motivational Quotes

Government

We have the best government that money can buy.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Government

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

Reston, James

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

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

Reston, James

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Douglas, William O.

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

14.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

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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

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

Proverb, French

18.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

19.

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

Cousin, Victor

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Richard M. Nixon

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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Burns, George

29.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

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

Marshalov, Boris

31.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

40.

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 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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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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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Dulles, John Foster

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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

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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.

Galbraith, John Kenneth