Children Quote by Jane Mayer

“Charles’s aim, he said, was to tear the government out “at the root.”

— Jane Mayer

“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for stealth in…

— Jane Mayer

“When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

— Patricia Briggs

“And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.”

— John Steinbeck

“Charles, meanwhile, had started to raise funds in all manner of semiconstitutional and unconstitutional ways.”

— Daniel Hannan

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested only in…

— Hank Quense

“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be…

— Jane Hamilton

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be…

— Martin McGuinness

Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that…

— Howard Zinn

“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions,…

— Joseph J. Ellis