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So true
“I got to believe that the people who can really be trusted are those who have kept their promises, not under the influence of pleasing people, but under the influence of doing what they have devoted their lives to be doing!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
What is surprising is that such a thing was in place. Bloody peasants !
A person should seek to add honour to the office s/he holds or seeks, rather than using that office to heap honour on her/him self.
This is what drove me to title my memoires, “No, Honourable Minister”. This does not apply to all ministers or members of parliament, but the rotten apples are ruining the whole basket.
Where’s the “LIKE” button when you need one?
Charity begins at home, Times of Malta.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797):
“The proper business of a statesman is to contrive the means by which certain ends may be effected, leaving it to the general voice of the country to determine what those ends shall be and shaping his own conduct, not according to his own principles, but according to the wishes of the people for who he legislates and whom he is bound to obey.”
“The world has been made familiar with the great truth, that one main condition of the prosperity of a people is that its rulers shall have very little power, that they shall exercise that power very sparingly and that they shall by no means presume to raise themselves into supreme judges of the national interest, or deem themselves authorised to defeat the wishes of those for whose benefits alone they occupy the post entrusted to them.”
“The people are the masters. They have only to express their wants at large and in gross. We are the expert artists; we are skilful workmen, to shape their desires into perfect form and to fit the utensil to the use. They are the sufferers, they tell the symptoms of the complaint; but we know the exact seat of the disease and how to apply the remedy according to the rules of art. How shocking would it be to see us pervert our skills into sinister and servile dexterity for the purpose of evading our duty and defrauding our employers, who are our natural lords of the object of their just expectations.”
“Association of Former MPs”? Is this a new trade union?
The Telegraph leader asked:
“But how have voters of every political allegiance managed to elect so many of them in recent years?”
Alexander Tyler (sometimes spelt Tytler) had the answer ready for him more than 200 years ago:
Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle Of Democracy (1770)
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world�s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.”
Tyler foresaw our Mintoff and Muscat 200 years beforehand.