A Quote by John Dryden

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. — © John Dryden
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

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In government, the scum rises to the top.
In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
The Moroccan scum in Holland... once again not all are scum... but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people... and that should change.
Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.
Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
When you associate with scum, you become scum.
A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the enemy - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of scum!
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