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...many hundred times have we heard the President preach law-and-order to our countrymen while at the same time refusing to practice it himself? When anyone holding the highest office in the country places himself above the law, it is indeed time for a change...
...implications of these views are familiar enough. Power corrupts and so do possessions. So do pride and pragmatism. "The political genius," Solzhenitsyn writes with savage irony, "lies in extracting success, even from the people's ruin." Similar notions, passionately held, drove Tolstoy to abandon family and property and preach nonresistance as well as noncooperation with any of the institutions of society...
...horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...
Many of his sayings are hauntingly familiar, aphoristic observations usually attributed in the West to Benjamin Franklin or some ancient Jewish sage. Truisms like "Practice what you preach," or "He who learns without thinking is lost, but he who thinks without learning is in danger" seem reasonable building blocks for any society. And no one can argue with "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
Gairy contemptuously dismisses his opponents as "hot and sweaty, impetuous and overambitious youngsters fresh from universities, who preach bloodshed and are tainted by a bit of Communism." In fact, he maintains, his opposition is based on what he calls the "plantocracy," the big plantation owners who have never forgotten that he was the one who got wage increases for their field hands in the '50s. The landowners cannot forgive him, he insists, for never having gone to secondary school...