“There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.” PeopleHardStatesClassHonestConscienceIntentionManageBewitched Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.” MenLittlesFactsGovernmentAbilityBehindsKnownLibertySupportHonestTheoryIntegrityAverageChosenSuperiorsManageReasonableRepresentativesInferiorsSuperior ManRepresentative Government Author:H. L. Mencken
“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.” MenGovernmentActionPurposeHonestPhilosopherGuidesManageFormerLatterClosetsPublic LifeSchooledAloofNot HonestUpright Man Author:Plato