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That government is best which governs least
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity
As the government is, such will be the man
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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