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[Quote No.16763] Need Area: Friends > General
"Live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16764] Need Area: Friends > General
"Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it. [ Remember..'Order is Heaven's first law.' - Alexander Pope]
" - Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719) English essayist
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[Quote No.16765] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the [many] poor and campaign funds from the [few] rich, by promising to protect each from the other." - Oscar Ameringer
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[Quote No.16766] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is better for a city to be governed by a good man [or woman] than even by good laws." - Aristotle
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.16767] Need Area: Friends > General
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities." - Walter Bagehot
(1826 - 1877)
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[Quote No.16768] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians." - Chester Bowles
(1901 - 1986) American government official
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[Quote No.16769] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797) English orator and statesman
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[Quote No.16770] Need Area: Friends > General
"No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking [restraining] the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy." - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797) English orator and statesman
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[Quote No.16771] Need Area: Friends > General
"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. [Control yourself or others will.]" - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797) English orator & statesman
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[Quote No.16772] Need Area: Friends > General
"The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) Roman orator
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[Quote No.16773] Need Area: Friends > General
"The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.
" - James Freeman Clarke
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[Quote No.16774] Need Area: Friends > General
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves." - Grover Cleveland
(1837 - 1908) 22d and 24th U.S. President
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[Quote No.16775] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only choice, which Providence had graciously left, to a vicious government is either to fall by the people if they become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834) English poet and critic
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[Quote No.16776] Need Area: Friends > General
"Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life." - Elmer Davis
(1890 - 1958) American writer and broadcaster
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[Quote No.16777] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it." - The Declaration of Independence
United States of America
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[Quote No.16778] Need Area: Friends > General
"A state is better governed which has but few laws, and those laws strictly observed." - Rene Descartes
(1596 - 1650) French philosopher
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[Quote No.16779] Need Area: Friends > General
"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters." - Dwight David Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969) 34th President of U. S. and Supreme Commander in World War II
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[Quote No.16780] Need Area: Friends > General
"The less government we have the better, the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.16781] Need Area: Friends > General
"If men and women of capacity refuse to take part in politics and government, they condemn themselves, as well as the people, to the punishment of living under bad government." - Senator Sam J. Ervin
American politician
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[Quote No.16782] Need Area: Friends > General
"We settle things by a majority vote, and the psychological effect of doing that is to create the impression that the majority is probably right. Of course, on any fine issue the majority is [often] sure to be wrong....any day a prizefight will get a bigger crowd, larger gate receipts and wider newspaper publicity than any new revelation of goodness, truth or beauty could hope to achieve in a century. [This is perhaps one reason why Sir Winston Churchill stated, 'Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others'.]" - Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
(1878-1969) American clergyman
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[Quote No.16783] Need Area: Friends > General
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. [The technical might of force rather than the numerical might of opinion.]" - Buckminster Fuller
(1895 - 1983) American engineer and inventor
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[Quote No.16784] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Karl Von Clausewitz
(1780 - 1831)
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[Quote No.16785] Need Area: Friends > General
"...we should go to war only when it was worth while going to certain death, as now.... war is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.... The air of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft...." - Leo Tolstoy
stated by the fictional Prince Andrew Bolkhonsky in 'War and Peace' , Book 10, Chapter 25, pp 486-7
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[Quote No.16786] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is the exercise of force for the attainment of a political object, unrestrained by any law save that of expediency." - Karl von Clausewitz
paraphrase from Clausewitz's 'On War', (1780-1831), Prussian general and military strategist.
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[Quote No.16788] Need Area: Friends > General
"The translation of values into public policy is what politics is about." - William Gaylin
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[Quote No.16789] Need Area: Friends > General
"The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil." - William E. Gladstone
(1809 - 1898) English statesman
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[Quote No.16790] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) German poet, dramatist and philosopher
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[Quote No.16791] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad but because man is by nature more individualistic than social." - Thomas Hobbes
(1588 - 1679) English philosopher
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[Quote No.16792] Need Area: Friends > General
"All government and exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based on love, and directed by knowledge, is tyranny." - Anna Jameson
(1794 - 1860) English author
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[Quote No.16793] Need Area: Friends > General
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826) 3rd U.S. President
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[Quote No.16795] Need Area: Friends > General
"A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority." - Alfred Landon
(1887 - 1987) U. S. oil businessman and Republican politician;
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[Quote No.16796] Need Area: Friends > General
"A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand." - Walter Savage Landor
(1775 - 1864) English author
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[Quote No.16797] Need Area: Friends > General
"You can't run a government solely on a business basis. Government should be human. It should have a heart." - Herbert H. Lehman
(1878 - 1963) U. S. banker, philanthropist, and Democratic politician
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[Quote No.16798] Need Area: Friends > General
"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities." - Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865) 16th U.S. President
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[Quote No.16799] Need Area: Friends > General
"The principal foundation of all states is in good laws and good arms." - Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469 - 1527) Italian statesman
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[Quote No.16801] Need Area: Friends > General
"A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip." - Raymond Charles Moley
(1886 - 1975) U.S. journalist and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Quote No.16802] Need Area: Friends > General
"The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances." - Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
(1689 - 1755) French philosopher
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[Quote No.16803] Need Area: Friends > General
"All overmuch governing kills the self-help and energy of the governed." - Wendell Phillips
(1811 - 1884) U. S. abolitionist
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[Quote No.16804] Need Area: Friends > General
"The punishment suffered by the wise that refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men.
" - Plato
(427 B.C. - 347 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.16805] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government." - Sir Walter Raleigh
(1552 - 1618) English courtier and navigator
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[Quote No.16806] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries, which associated individuals, have to fear from one another. It is the sentinel who watches, in order that the common laborer is not disturbed." - Abbe Raynal
Guillaume Thomas François, Abbé Raynal, (1713–1796), French historian and philosopher. (Raynal was a priest, but he was dismissed from his parish)
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[Quote No.16807] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies, which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster." - James Harvey Robinson
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[Quote No.16808] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no right government except good government." - George Santayana
(1863-1952) Spanish - American philosopher
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[Quote No.16809] Need Area: Friends > General
"That is the most perfect government under which a wrong to the humblest is an affront to all." - Solon
(638 B.C. - 558 B.C.) Athenian lawgiver
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[Quote No.16810] Need Area: Friends > General
"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
(1835 - 1914) U.S. Democratic politician
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[Quote No.16811] Need Area: Friends > General
"...all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." - Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745) Irish satirist, dean of Saint Patrick's
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[Quote No.16812] Need Area: Friends > General
"It may pass for a maxim in state, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislation in too many. [The fewer that administrate the more efficient; the greater that legislate the more representative]" - Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745) Irish satirist, dean of Saint Patrick's
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[Quote No.16813] Need Area: Friends > General
"The world is governed by three things; wisdom, authority, and appearance. Wisdom for thoughtful people, authority for rough people, and appearances for the great mass of superficial people who can look only at the outside." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16814] Need Area: Friends > General
"Many people consider the things, which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism." - Chief Justice Earl Warren
(1891 - 1974) U. S. jurist and Republican politician
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[Quote No.16815] Need Area: Friends > General
"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that everyone had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799) 1st U. S. President
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