Body Politic Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. — B R Ambedkar
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it… — Spruille Braden
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive… — June Jordan
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash. — George Washington
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important… — Bill Moyers
King George III may have been a greedy â€˜control freak,â€™ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a… — Larry Klayman
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to… — Alexander Hamilton
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold… — Otto von Bismarck
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic? — P.J. O'Rourke
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that… — Duncan Campbell Scott
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. — Laurence Overmire
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing… — Deroy Murdock
A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but… — George Boas
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every… — Henry Ward Beecher
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. — Swami Vivekananda
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi

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