{"quotes":[{"text":"The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.","author":"Harold Nicholson","tags":["british","constitution","continuity","dictator","elect","government","hereditary","identity","institution","king","legitimate","monarch","neutral","partisan","political","politician","president","queen","royal-family","service","sovereign","state","succession","terrorism"],"id":5646,"author_id":"Harold+Nicholson"},{"text":"To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it 'your vote will not be lost'!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["believe","elect","election","food-for-thought","honest","honesty","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lost","principle-of-the-truth","sincere","sincerity","tell-the-truth","true","truth","truthful","truthfulness","violate","vote","vote-for-the-truth","win","winner"],"id":23895,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).","author":"Thomas Watson","tags":["charge","elect","forgiveness","gunshot","gunshot-of-hell","hell","pardon","pardoned-soul","romans"],"id":61046,"author_id":"Thomas+Watson"},{"text":"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":75011,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":79431,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","others","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","positions","positive","positively","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","titles","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":89083,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":99152,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["agenda","agendas","candidate","corruption","costumes","democrat","elect","election","elections","horse","horses","left","left-wing","masks","nominations","nominees","opponents","political","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","politricks","presidential-elections","puppet","puppets","rainbow","rainbow-coat","republican","right","right-wing","smiles","steal-votes","stealing","vote","voters","votes","voting"],"id":175867,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety \u0026 Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["affairs","allegations","blower","complaints","compliant","continue","corporations","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corrupt-politics","corrupted","corruption","corruption-and-attitude","corruption-politics","corruption","democratic","democratic-party-united-states","elect","elected","election","elections","enforce","enforced","enforcement","hardly","internal","law","law-enforcement","lobbying","lobbyist","lobbyists","operating","osha","outside","party-politics","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politician","politicians","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","sheriff","uphold","whistle","whistle-blower","whistle-blowers","whistle-blowing","whistleblower","whistleblowers","whistleblowing"],"id":188901,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","commander","elect","elected","election","entrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","popular-opinion","position","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness"],"id":293427,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}