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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
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"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
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Personal Development
"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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"Knowledge is true opinion."
Education
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
Integrity
"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."
Religion
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Integrity
"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."
Perseverance
"Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time."
Kindness
"Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."
Poetry
"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
Wisdom
"You should not honor men more than truth."
Morality
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Politics
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