Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. >>

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among >>

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the >>

Quotations about Government

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception >>

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens a >>

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast li >>

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas