Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise,… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“So quickly in youth do different and opposite trains of ideas and emotions succeed to each other; and so easy it is,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
