“The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.” LittlesFactsFeelingsGovernmentIssuesSeriousPaidAddMinistersIncapableTacklingMalaiseSerious Issues Author:Vince Cable
“A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.” MenNeedsSelfGovernmentMightTogetherStrongForceNationsStrongerIntelligentSlaveInstinctTiesIncapableTenseBeggingVigorousOrganisationClingingSelf-governmentGregariousSelf Reliant Author:Francis Galton
“This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” PeopleNeedsYearsEndsGovernmentCoursesConstitutionIncapableDespotism Author:Benjamin Franklin
“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.” WarReasonGovernmentFightingEnemySeaBuildingResourcesArmyCrisisTradeProfitFundReverseIncapableRivalsMonarchsTerritorialMaritime Author:Peter Padfield
“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.” ThinkingYearsMayReasonCharacterGovernmentFormSpeakActingLibertyStepsTakenToo MuchWiseHorrorEqualCapableConsequenceIdealsBasesTriumphIncapableAstonishingRespectableGoverningDespotismForms Of GovernmentIrrevocableAvertSingle Step Author:George Washington
“It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.” WorldSaidSelfGovernmentModernIncapableModern WorldSelf-government Author:Robert A. Agresta