Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Government

Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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 art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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

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

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Reston, James

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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

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

Durant, William J.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

Douglas, William O.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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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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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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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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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