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"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
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"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes."
"The greatest policy is where there are no policies!"
"The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country."
"The government can make laws but they can't make people live by these laws."
"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."
"If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them."
"The Bill of Rights wasn't enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had."
"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."
"Metaphorically, governance is like a "Steer, Risk Management is like a "Brake."
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"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."
"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
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