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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