Advantages Quote by Chrystia Freeland

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means…

— Thomas Jefferson

“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”

— Tony Benn

“Democracies don't even withstand formally half educated citizens. Courtesy, respect, and sensibility don't tend to ethical sense. Nature nurtures, if compared to most good…

— Anonymous

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

— Charles de Gaulle

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well…

— David Hume

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented…

— Martin Van Buren

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

— John Mearsheimer

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently…

— C. Wright Mills

Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true.…

— Hans F. Sennholz

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

— Anthony Trollope

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

— Robert Gilpin