John Ramsay McCulloch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
-- John Ramsay McCulloch

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The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.
-- John Ramsay McCulloch

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It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.
-- John Ramsay McCulloch

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No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.
-- John Ramsay McCulloch

#Country #Add #Arbitrary

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
Politics is the polite way of telling somone else theyâ€™re stupid.
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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