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Governance Quotes
"Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government."
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"They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done."
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"They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them."
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"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
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"When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members."
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"Truth is commodity in political consumption."
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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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"Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper."
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"If our leaders ignore the rule of law, it is certain that they have broken the social contract. The social contract is not a declaration of a lasting war but of a lasting peace who's regulation is charged by the will of the people under the rule of law. I pray the we are wise enough to keep our moral compass."
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"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
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"It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake."
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"Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion."
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"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
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"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"
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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 mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country."
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"Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours."
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"Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics."
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"Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility."
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