Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country. ”

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. ”

The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements. ”

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ”

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. ”

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ”

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. ”

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ”

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ”

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions. ”