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“Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.”

Men Country Politics One Thing Election Ruins Proven

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

“The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.”

Doe Sometimes Today Politics Term Lines Economy Easier Productions Credit Harm Access Scales Ruins Liberalism Units Rivals Large Scale

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.”

People Ifs Wisdom Politics Effort Economy Gone Rights Civilization Destruction Property Injustice Cease Commit Destroyed Ruins Liberalism Acquire Enterprise Incentives Property Rights

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.”

Humans Art Spiritual Politics Born Church Human Beings Christianity Objects Revolution Universal Eternity Function Ruins Temples Museums Construction Heroism Asceticism

Book:1904-1912

Source: 1904-1912

“Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.”

Children Hands Politics Childhood Envy Confusion Ruins Division Unkind

Book:King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3

Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3

“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”

Giving Mind May Children Political House Politics My Own Fate Our Children Accepted Ruins Seats Warning Representatives House Of Representatives

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations