"Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government."
― William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Government
More From William Lyon Mackenzie King
- "If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
- "Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
- "Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
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- "Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."― Thomas Fuller