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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to read more
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act read more
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their read more
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.
