"A king can stand people's fighting but..." - Quote by Will Rogers
A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
More by Will Rogers
“What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.”
“One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.”
“It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.”
More on Power
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”
More on Governance
“What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.”
“Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.”
“When taxes are too high, people go hungry.”