Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.
Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.
In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism!
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
Age is a state of mind.
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their ene...
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The point is as long as it doesn’t affect others in a negative manner then just do what you enjoy doing as often as possible, it’s simple. That philosophy should underpin society and it’s something that nanny states just don’t get – that li...
Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard about the plans to destroy it and wrote to raise awareness of its glorious hist...
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think ...
