A Quote by George Washington

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

George Washington

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George Washington
American - President
February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

George Washington

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

George Washington

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

Donald Trump

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Samuel Johnson

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

Benicio Del Toro

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn't simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.

Harry Browne

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

Edmund Burke

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.

Robert Anton Wilson

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Michelle Alexander

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

Maria Montessori

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

Sean Covey

The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

Simon Bolivar

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