What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
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A cynical remark on how governments benefit from an unthinking populace.
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
A cynical remark on how governments benefit from an unthinking populace.
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It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain an idea (a thought) without accepting it.
— Aristotle
From seventy to ninety per cent of the thinking of the people is ancestral.
— Newton D. Baker
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
— George Jean Nathan
“Five per cent of the people think; ten per cent think they think; and the rest would rather die than think.”
— TIME
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
— George Washington
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
— Robert C. Dodds