- Quotes by John Caldwell Calhoun
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party”. - Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon
“When a proposal is made to emancipate or relieve, you hesitate, you deliberate for years, you temporize and tamper with the minds of men; but a death-bill must be passed off-hand, without a thought of the consequences. The impression of Parliament upon me was that its members are not formidable as speakers, but very much so as an audience. Cicerohimself, and probably the Messiah, could never have alter’d the vote of a single Lord of the Bedchamber or Bishop”. - Quotes by John Byrom
“God bless the King! – I mean the Faith’s Defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender! But who Pretender is, or who is King – God bless us all! – that’s quite another thing”. - Quotesby Robert Burns
“Princess and lords are but the breath of kings, “An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious”. - Quotes by Edmund Burke
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle”. - Quotes by Anthony Burgess
“The U.S. Presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones”. - Quotes by Samuel Dickinson Burchard
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”.
Tags: Anthony Burgess, Byron Lord George Gordon, Edmund Burke, Government And Politics, John Byrom, John Caldwell Calhoun, Robert Burns, Samuel Dickinson Burchard
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