Misgovernment Quotes

#1. Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#2. Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Jeremy Bentham

#3. The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Lincoln Steffens

#4. We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

William E. Gladstone

#5. They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Edmund Burke

#6. Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Misgovernment ... will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. I was always a bit of a jokester.

Alison Brie

#12. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That's all.

Jessica Valenti

#13. You can do anything under one condition; you must continually abide in Jesus Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one.

Ben Aaronovitch

#15. Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

Alfred Jodl

#16. Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Donald Rumsfeld

#17. I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle ... then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.

Dave Attell

#18. That he required me to service him. To think of him above everything else. To allow myself to be willingly used by him in any way he desired. It was why I was a sick person.

Laurelin Paige

#19. It's never too late to reinvent yourself.

Darlene Quinn

#20. A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Alain De Botton

#21. The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness ... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Gordon T. Smith

#22. They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

Coco Lee

#23. If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently.

Charlie Sheen

#24. By keeping your vision in mind - imagining it vividly and regularly - you automatically teach your unconscious mind to lead you to that day. And won't

Kent Sayre

#25. Don't play for safety

Hugh Walpole