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“Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.”

Has Beens Politics Millions Power Revolution Six Hundred Europe Empires Great Empires

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”

Politics Poor Poverty Talent Hundred

Book:Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.”

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”

People Thinking I Can Politics Hundred Management Mad Acres Mismanagement

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”

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Book:Thomas Hardy

Source: Thomas Hardy

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.”

People Knows House Politics Couple Hundred

Author:Dan Quayle

“I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.”

Knows Giving Years Wanted Politics Bits Democracy Lessons Hundred Okay Vote Slave Iraq Fifty Genocide Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing

Author:Kurt Vonnegut