“Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.” MenWorldPoliticsWinningSidesPowerChangedCitizensMassChiefsStirring Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.” MenWantNeedsDoeSaidWarLightOrderGrowsSubjectsMovementCitizensMeetingsSpreadChiefsPermanentGood ManTyrantsCowardicePerpetualSuperiorityAccustomedSpyObligedServitudeCalumnyDissensionBaseness Author:Aristotle
“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.” PeopleKnowsMenSometimesFactsHandsAbleCertainStrongSocialFreedomCommonDemocracyKingsCitizensUltimateMereLeavingChiefsCharacteristicsMonarchyFree ManSocial Control Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.” IndividualCommunityEffortEducationSupportCitizensDrawsBurdenChiefsTaxationSelf EducationIndividual Effort Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2 Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2
“I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.” WarCountryBeliefPresidentDecisionBehindsSupportCitizensIraqChiefsSwingsPresident BushCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Dan Rather
“There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.” IfsCountryPoliticalAbilityClassStudyDesignCitizensOur CountryChiefsNarrativeCommandersStatesmenCommander In Chief Author:Benjamin Carson
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” TryingWarPoliticalPoliticsEnergyFreedomPartyLibertyDemocracyEconomicCitizensPoliticianSucceedProveVoteChiefsVotingAnti WarAntiwarPolitical PartiesDemocracies HaveRight To VoteVoting And DemocracyElections And VotingVoting DayMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken