"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever……" — Alexander Pope
"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be…
— B R Ambedkar
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
— Louis Nizer
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This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above…
— Pope John Paul II
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest…
— Algernon Sidney
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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which…
— Donald James
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of…
— John Calvin
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According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it…
— Gary Kleck
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did…
— Corinne Heline
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as…
— Andrew Jackson
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
— Woody Allen
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