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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
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top
One of the most important, but one of the most difficult things to a powerful mind is to be its own master; a pond may lay quiet in a plain, but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in
If friends to a government forbear their assistance, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are superior to them in strength and interest
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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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