Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

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

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Burns, George

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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

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

Caldwell, John S.

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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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

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

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

Bob Wells

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

Welch, Robert

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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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

33.

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Voltaire

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Reston, James

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

Gladstone, William E.

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Lawson, Nigel

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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