Plato Quotes, Political Quotes, Honor Quotes

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Giving Quotes , Political Quotes

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Political Quotes , Flattery Quotes

Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

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Tags : Alan Bersin Quotes , Country Quotes , Political Quotes

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Giving Quotes , Political Quotes

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Men Quotes , Political Quotes

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

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About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

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Please don't kill me!

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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