Motivational Quotes

Government

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

- Welch, Robert

Best Quotes about Government

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, French

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

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Updike, John

11.

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

Burns, George

12.

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

13.

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

Melbourne, Lord

14.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

17.

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

H. L. Mencken

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

22.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

23.

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

24.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Dulles, John Foster

26.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

27.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bob Wells

31.

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

Bastiat, Frederic

32.

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

33.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Pittacus

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

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.

39.

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

Solon

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

43.

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

Hospers, John

44.

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

Reston, James

45.

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

Douglas, William O.

46.

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

47.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

48.

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

Marshalov, Boris

49.

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

Bertrand Russell

50.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.