Motivational Quotes

Government

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Government

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Richard M. Nixon

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Reston, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Cousin, Victor

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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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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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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Solon

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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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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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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

Dulles, John Foster

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman