George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, Compassionate Conservatism (April 2002)
Speech in Des Moines, Iowa lobbying for American isolationism (11 September 1941)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, Compassionate Conservatism (April 2002)
Amir-Abbas Fakhravar (1975) Iranian political activist
[July 2006, http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/072006Fakhravar.pdf, "Prepared Testimony of Mr. Amir Abbas Fakhravar to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security", PDF, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 2007-04-09]
Ricardo Sanchez (1953) United States Army Lieutenant General
Reporters and editors luncheon address (2007)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Letter to Emile Kahn (1 October 1881)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Context: One of its [James A. Garfield’s assassination] lessons, perhaps its most important lesson, is the folly, the wickedness, and the danger of the extreme and bitter partisanship which so largely prevails in our country. This partisan bitterness is greatly aggravated by that system of appointments and removals which deals with public offices as rewards for services rendered to political parties or to party leaders. Hence crowds of importunate place-hunters of whose dregs Guiteau is the type. The required reform [of the civil service] will be accomplished whenever the people imperatively demand it, not only of their Executive, but also of their legislative officers. With it, the class to which the assassin belongs will lose their occupation, and the temptation to try “to administer government by assassination” will be taken away.
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at the unveiling of the Hudson Memorial in Hyde Park (19 May 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 129.
1925
George Seldes (1890–1995) American journalist
Lords of the Press (1938)
Incorporates the famous observation of Joseph de Maistre that "every nation gets the government it deserves."
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Broadcast from London (6 March 1934); published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 20.
1934
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (28 September 1976), quoted in James Callaghan, Time and Chance (Collins, 1987), p. 425
Prime Minister