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[Quote No.57887] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics is often disfunctional:] The duty of an Opposition is very simple... to oppose everything, and propose nothing. " - Edward Smith-Stanley
(1799 – 1869), 14th Earl of Derby, a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.
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[Quote No.57888] Need Area: Friends > General
"[As in individual life, sometimes leadership and] Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. " - John Galbraith
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[Quote No.57889] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57890] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Disempowered] Timid men [and women] prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57891] Need Area: Friends > General
"A democracy [without a bill of rights for each individual equally] is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57892] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Every citizen, who votes without thinking carefully and skeptically, should know what every politician knows, namely that...] You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." - James Thurber
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[Quote No.57893] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The two major political economic systems can be defined around how they perceive differences in power and money and try to achieve equality:] Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man [or woman] and his [or her] fine home, says: No man [or woman] should have so much. The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: All men [and women] should have as much. [Another way of saying this is that the communist who sees the rich person's three storey home wants no person to have the freedom-power-choice to have a building higher than one storey, while the capitalist who sees the same wants all people to have the freedom-power-choice to have a three storey building.]" - Phelps Adams
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[Quote No.57894] Need Area: Friends > General
"[In a democracy, each citizen should use their vote wisely. Remember...] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." - George Jean Nathan
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[Quote No.57895] Need Area: Friends > General
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature [as a human birth-right], and not as the gift of their chief magistrate [government or royalty]." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57896] Need Area: Friends > General
"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." - Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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[Quote No.57897] Need Area: Friends > General
"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. [Democracy with a bill of individual rights to protect minorities even of one from disregard and abuse by the majority seem the best choice of a bad lot.]" - Winston Churchill
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[Quote No.57898] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Often] Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.57900] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every one [their freedom and dignity] is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him [or her for their informed consent], take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his [or her] destiny." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.57901] Need Area: Friends > General
"No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public." - John Dewey
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[Quote No.57902] Need Area: Friends > General
"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. " - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57904] Need Area: Friends > General
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57906] Need Area: Friends > General
"[War and conscientious objection, government and civil disobedience:] If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." - Henry David Thoreau
[Refer also Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.]
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[Quote No.57909] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual equal freedom is necessary for all concerned:] If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.57913] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom from fraud and force:] Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political." - Ignazio Silone
(1900-1978), author.
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[Quote No.57920] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every great [social or political] movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.57923] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who won our [U.S.] independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . ." - Louis Brandeis
US Supreme Court Justice
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[Quote No.57926] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware, especially under the cover of a crisis, the restriction of any freedom:] Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt, 'The Younger'
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.57927] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Use your vote wisely:] We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57928] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Use your vote wisely:] A citizen of America [U.S.A.] will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. " - Bill Vaughan
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[Quote No.57929] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Political involvement and intellectual engagement are necessary for democracy and voting to work as intended for the public good:] The best defence is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves." - John Ralston Saul
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[Quote No.57930] Need Area: Friends > General
"The ultimate [social, political, legal] authority ... resides in the people alone." - James Madison
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[Quote No.57933] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - E.B. White
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[Quote No.57934] Need Area: Friends > General
"Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to totalitarianism [for example as in communism, socialism and fascism]. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else." - Iain Benson
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[Quote No.57935] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All voters and politicians should remember Lord Acton's quote that 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' because...] The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable." - John Adams
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[Quote No.57936] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57937] Need Area: Friends > General
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57939] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57940] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it." - John Adams
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[Quote No.57941] Need Area: Friends > General
"When [statist, paternalistic - i.e. communistic, socialistic -] government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves [their health and expenses, etc]." - George Pataki
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[Quote No.57942] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] Most bad government has grown out of too much government." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57943] Need Area: Friends > General
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard
(1874-1948)
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[Quote No.57944] Need Area: Friends > General
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57945] Need Area: Friends > General
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57946] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fifty-one percent of a nation [without a bill of equal, individual rights enforced by law] can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." - Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn
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[Quote No.57947] Need Area: Friends > General
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." - Milton Friedman
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[Quote No.57950] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." - Kathleen Norris
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[Quote No.57951] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Law and forgiveness: Unjustified] Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." - Adam Smith
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[Quote No.57952] Need Area: Friends > General
"Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government. " - Amos R. E. Pinochet
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[Quote No.57953] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is dangerous [physically and to your liberty] to be right when the government [which is legally authorised to use force] is wrong." - Voltaire
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[Quote No.57954] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sure there are dishonest [fraudulent women and] men in local government. But there are dishonest [fraudulent women and] men in national government too." - Richard M. Nixon
U.S. President
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[Quote No.57958] Need Area: Friends > General
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men [and women] born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. [Therefore] The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men [and women] of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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[Quote No.57959] Need Area: Friends > General
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies [conflicts and wars, even misnamed wars i.e. War on ...poverty, etc]. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us." - Thich Nhat Hanh
He is a Vietnamese monk, a renowned Zen master, a poet, and a peace activist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1967, and is the author of many books.
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[Quote No.57960] Need Area: Friends > General
"I repeat, that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, and that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist." - Benjamin Disraeli
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[Quote No.57961] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democratic government and bureaucracy:] As Clerk of the Privy Council, a particular concern of mine revolves around the governance challenge embodied in the dichotomy between fast and slow. Our era of accelerated change has been compared to a 100-meter dash that is run over and over and over again. There are times when the speed of the public interest must be more deliberative — slower in real time — than private sector deliberations. There are usually more interests at stake in public sector issues, more people to be brought along and a more subtle, or at least different, calculation than the private sector's bottom line. Decisions are typically hard to reverse and there is intense pressure to get it right the first time. Governance in a democracy takes time — even if you don't stop to recount the chads. But there are instances when it cannot be otherwise and still remain a democracy." - Mel Cappe
Clerk of the Privy Council. The 'Clerk of the Privy Council' is the most senior non-political official serving the responsible government, in other words, the executive, of the Canadian state.
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[Quote No.57962] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average [or at least in a democracy the majority] conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is." - Woodrow Wilson
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