"The best government is that which governs least."

-- John L. O'Sullivan

#Government Quotes

“A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.”
“I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.”
“Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (1990). “Love: Emotion, Myth, & Metaphor”
“It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.”

Source : "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.
“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books
“When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.”
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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