“New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.” KindGovernmentForceCitiesNew YorkIndustryConscienceIdealsPrivilegeJewInvisibleFinanceDestroyedSeatsSinisterReactionariesMercenary Author:William Jennings Bryan
“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.” WellsGovernmentChoicesNextTermDifferencesClearDevelopmentElectionInternationalSeatsLabourContests Author:Lucy Powell
“It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.” LittlesGovernmentCertainCommonPeriodsDistanceLocalsSeatsSatireRomeVersesStrifePettyFactionsSatiricalAnimosityCoarse Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.” DoeGovernmentLawPressesLondonSeats Author:Benjamin Disraeli