"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

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Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.421

George Bancroft

#Patriotic Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.”
“I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.”
“The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.”
“I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.”

Source : Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.”
“Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.”
“the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.”
“There are several things iconic about Sissy Hickey character - even just sounds. Like, "Awww." People love that sound! "Awww." I actually didn't want to do the role, because I didn't think I looked like a smoker - even though I used to be a smoker.”

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