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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
Nothing
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
Discipline
"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 put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Food
"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
Time
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
War
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."
Honor
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."
History
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