In principatu commutando civium
Nil prseter domini nomen mutant pauperes.
In a change of government the poor change nothing but the name of their masters.
Phaedrus—Fables. I. 15. 1.
Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Themistocles said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."
Plutarch—Life of Cato the Censor.
The government will take the fairest of names,
but the worst of realities—mob rule.
Poltbius. VI. 57.
The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
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He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
Revelations. II. 27.
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.
Roosevelt—Address. </poem>
Le despotisme tempere par 1'assassinat, c'est
notre magna charta.
Despotism tempered by assassination, that
is our Magna Charta.
A Russian Noble to Count Munster on
the assassination of Paul I., Emperor of
Russia. (1800)
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Wdjiteld Scott—Letter to W. H. Seward.
March 3, 1861.
The Pope sends for him . . . and (says he)
"We will be merry as we were before, for thou
little thinkest what a little foolery governs the
whole world."John Selden—Table Talk. Pope.
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A hated government does not last long.
Seneca—Phamissm. VI. 60.
For government, through high and low and
lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Like music.
How, in one house,
Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity? Tis hard; almost impossible. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 243.
Why, this it is, when men are rul'd by women.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 62. </poem>
What a man that would be had he a particle
of gall or the least knowledge of the value of red
tape. As Curran said of Grattan, "he would
have governed the world."
Sydney Smth. Of Sir John Mackintosh.
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Sydney Smith—On American Debts.
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| text = The schoolboy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.
Sydney Smith—Review of Seyberfs Annals.
United States.
Can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. V. Canto II. St. 51.
Omnium consensu capax imperii, si imperasset.
In the opinion of all men he would have been regarded as capable of governing, if he had never governed.
Tacitus—Annates. I. 49.
In the parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Et errat longe mea quidem sententia
Qui imperium credit gravius esse aut stabilius,
Vi quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia adjungitur.
It is a great error, in my opinion, to believe
that a government is more firm or assured
when it is supported by force, than when
founded on affection.
Terence—Adelphi. I. 1. 40.
We preach Democracy in vain while Tory and Conservative can point to the opposite side of the Atlantic and say: "There are Nineteen millions of the human race free absolutely, every man heir to the throne, governing themselves—the government of all, by all, for all; but instead of being a consistent republic it is one widespread confederacy of free men for the enslavement of a nation of another complexion."
