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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.


Walter Lippmann

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ULYSSES S. GRANT Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
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ELIZABETH SHADIGIAN There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction.
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...
THUCYDIDES Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILL Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs
SHERRY MARIE GALLAGHER Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
ITALIAN PROVERB Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
AMBROSE BIERCE The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATO The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
PLATO It is a sad state of affairs that I do
not know of any astronomer who fully understands the ene...
STEVEN MAGEE In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
AMBROSE BIERCE A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
PLATO First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men sho...
BENJAMIN TUCKER I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
GERARD DEPARDIEU We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the d...
JOHN YOO Defrauded by Maya and worldly affairs, the weepers weep. They weep for the sake of worldly affairs, ...
GURU NANAK a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.
ANTONIN SCALIA Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one dire...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's a sad state of affairs.
BRUCE LIVELY Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Timing is everything. There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at the flood leads on t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and y...
CHLOE THURLOW hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own affairs.
JOHN NEGROPONTE Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
MARILYN MONROE I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
GERARD DEPARDIEU Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human...
RON SUSKIND There is no justice among men.
NICHOLAS II I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence ra...
RAYMOND HULL Fair taxation, that's the issue here. Anyone who puts any other kind of gloss on it is not reflectin...
ROBERT KOCH We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revol...
BHAGAT SINGH Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
MASON COOLEY We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE Isn't that some sort of extra that takes it out of the category of everyday conduct of corporate aff...
CARTER PHILLIPS There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man fr...
CROESUS There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitt...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in w...
SIMONE WEIL It is impossible not react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic prod...
CASEY SPOONER Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affai...
AMBROSE BIERCE Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and wom...
HENRY CADBURY The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
JUNIUS Of course fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important.
JEANNE DETOURBEY GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hand...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Medical affairs groups that have been removed from the grips of commercial bias must look elsewhere ...
ELIO EVANGELISTA This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men shou...
BENJAMIN TUCKER The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
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C. JOYBELL C. How many of us teach our own children to be dignified, free? How many of us knowingly teach them to ...
MARIANA FULGER Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian org...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty a...
EMILY GREENE BALCH There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of s...
BELLE BOYD Surely (as for) those who disbelieve in the communications of Allah and slay the prophets unjustly a...
QURAN The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
JAMES BUCHANAN In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves a...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good...
MATT BLUNT The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Mus...
ANDREW GOODMAN The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...
P.G. WODEHOUSE The Tibetan people will not be satisfied until there is political change which will give them genuin...
ALISON REYNOLDS He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of di...
WILLIAM TREVOR It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation
M.A. GEORGE Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT There is a success tide in the affairs of men that occurs each time we wake up in the morning & such...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges w...
HENRIK IBSEN The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDING The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.
TODD YOUNG The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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