"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
― Thomas Carlyle
Topic(s):
Peace
More From Thomas Carlyle
- "For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
- "Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
- "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
More In Peace
- "For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."― Gustav Stresemann
- "I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."― Isabel Allende
- "Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."― Suzanne Fields