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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
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"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
Beauty
"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
Leadership
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
Government
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
Beauty
"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
Praise
"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
Pleasure
"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
Cultural
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
Self-control
"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
Leadership
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