QUOTATIONS
ON NATIONS AND POLITICIANS
1. Government's projects should be for sustainable
and integrative development. Anonymous
2. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing
army. Edward
Everett
3. Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Charles
de Montesquieu
4. A man's true wealth is the good he has done to his fellow-men.
M.
K. Gandhi
5. As you look at history, it is apparent that human behaviour
is much easier to predict than weather. Michael
Levine
6. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
7. I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.
Socrates
8. Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey
cage. H.
L. Menken
9. Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved
by understanding. Albert
Einstein
10. Beware of being too rational. In a country that is insane, the integrated
man does not become king. He
gets lynched. Aldous
Huxley
11. The most fundamental duty of a government is governing the
generation, distribution and accumulation
of wealth by its citizens.
Anonymous
12. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Arbuthnot
13. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don't necessarily
want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn
Carter
14. Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil
it with too much poking. Lao
Tzu
15. A diplomat is one who can tell you to go to hell so tactfully that
you start packing for the trip. Michael
Robbins
16. Those who profess to favour freedom and depreciate agitation
are men who want crops without
ploughing the ground.
Frederick
Douglas
17. A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
John
Le Carre
18. Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence
Day
19. Nothing can bring out our weaknesses more than power. Anonymous
20. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those
who steal from the public purse. Adlai
E. Stevenson
21. No law can be unchangeable law. It must be based on
knowledge and as knowledge grows, it must
grow with it. Jawaharlal
Nehru
22. People should be united and ruled by, firstly knowledge,
secondly law and thirdly love. Anonymous
23. The most silent of all killers is communalism and the worst
of these is religious communalism. Anonymous
24. You can not adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
 
Louis M. Howe
25. The best religion is the most tolerant. Delphine
de Girardin
26. The least governed country is the best governed country. T.
Jefferson
27. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they
do it from religious conviction. Blaise
Pascal
28. The public good ought to be the objective of the legislator,
general utility ought to be the foundation of
his reasonings. To know
the true good of community is what constitutes the science of legislation;
the
art consists in finding
the means to realize that good. Jeremy
Bentham
29. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do
evil, but because of those who look on
and do nothing. Albert
Einstein
30. Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place
where you belong to. Anonymous
31. If I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the
gods to decree that it be governed by those
who consider themselves the
only true patriots in it. Sydney
J. Harris
32. Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken
out aloud. Hermann
Hesse
33. Remember the golden rule; those who have the gold make
the rules. Brant
Parker
34. When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. Setswana
proverb
35. Once the game is over, the king and pawn go back into the
same box. Italian
proverb
36. When the system is corrupted, the easy way is 'do what
is commonly done'. K.N.
Owwell
37. Freedom is when people can speak, democracy is when the government
listens. Alastair
Farrugia
38. There are no limits on our future if we don't put limits on
our people. Jack
Kemp
39. All men like to think they can do it alone but a real man
knows there is no substitute for support,
encouragement or a pit crew.
Tim
Allen
40. Manage change before it manages you. encyclopedia.com
41. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's
inclination to injustice makes democracy
necessary. Reinhold
Niebuhr
42. It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another
to wallow in it. Kenneth
Auchincloss
43. Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men
in battle, yet he indeed is the noble victor
who conquers himself.
Dhammapada
44. Your biggest competitor is your own view of your future. Jim
Taylor
45. Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Mark
Helprin
46. The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we
think we ought to have - and that is a moral
problem, not an
economic one. Paul
Heyne
47. Three groups spend other people's money : children, thieves
and politicians. All three need supervision. Dick
Armey
48. Change is what keeps us fresh and innovative. Change is what
keeps us from getting stale. Change
is what keeps us young.
Rick
Pitino
49. Nothing is impossible until it is sent to a committe. Anonymous
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