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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
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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."
"Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Jeremy Bentham
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
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