"Where there is little or no public opinion,……" — William Lyon Mackenzie King
"Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government."
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
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37 Quotes by William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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Every hour of useful work is precious.
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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
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I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed…
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the…
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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to…
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of…
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Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime…
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More Autocratic Quotes
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Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are…
— Noam Chomsky
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Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the…
— Guy Kawasaki
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An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I…
— Albert Einstein
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is…
— Michael Parenti
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I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom…
— Liu Xia
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A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to…
— Irshad Manji
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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of…
— Calvin Coolidge
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control…
— Maggie Gallagher
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A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
— Alastair Reynolds
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Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation…
— Noam Chomsky
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