“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.” PeopleIfsYearsInterestDemocracyConditionsMediaOughtFitModelsIdealsTestsWesternAbstractConformAdoptedKoreaSingaporePhilippinesTaiwanWestern Media Author:Goh Chok Tong
“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.” PeopleThinkingGreatnessJudgingOughtFitTruth IsCapableMotiveSublime Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!” MenEnoughPoliticalOughtFitVoteSelfishIgnorantVotingTrustedWomens RightsMen WomenPolitical PowerNarrow-minded Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.” PeopleMenSaidGovernmentPoliticsOughtFitMouthsConcernMiserySlaveNakedDestroyedFedsTyrantsProtectedDeceived Author:Cato the Younger
“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.” PassionIndividualResultsSubjectsOughtFitJudgmentPrejudiceErrorsCongressVicesAbsurdFlightEnthusiasmFollyProductiveDefectsAssemblyLegislatureLiableFrailtyHastyPartialityControlling Power Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” PeopleSelfStoriesUsePoliticalPoliticsWaterFreedomLearningFoolOughtHabitPoliticianFitWorthySwimEvidentPropositionsMaxims4th Of JulyJulyIndependence DayIndependence Day PatrioticJuly 4th 1776Usa Patriotic4th Of July InspirationalFourth Of July InspirationalJuly 4 Author:Thomas B. Macaulay