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"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
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"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
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"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state machinery and the excised phrase 'in humble submission to almighty God' - but because it no longer places THEM in a position to claim that THEY represent the will of that 'God' and to act as though it were true."
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"The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country."
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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
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"Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government."
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"Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility."
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"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."
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"Metaphorically, governance is like a "Steer, Risk Management is like a "Brake."
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"Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
War
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Food
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"A historian cannot pick and choose his facts, he must deal with all the evidence."
History
"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."
Politics
"Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex."
Philosophy
"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."
Writing
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Humor
"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
History
"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."
Love
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