Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Thomas Heatherwick

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

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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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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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

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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

Updike, John

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, A. P.

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bob Wells

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Marshalov, Boris

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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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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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

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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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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.