{"quotes":[{"text":"War is young men dying and old men talking.","author":"Franklin D. Roosevelt","tags":["politics","president","war"],"id":143,"author_id":"Franklin+D.+Roosevelt"},{"text":"History judges a leader by results. Let my results do the talking.","author":"General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf","tags":["history","pakistan","president"],"id":1210,"author_id":"General+%28Retd%29+Pervez+Musharraf"},{"text":"Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":1281,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"},{"text":"Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-good","benevolence","blind","deaf","do-good","ear","eye","eyes","goodness","greatness","guru","hear","heart","heart","kind","kindness","lead","leader","leadership","matshona-dhliwayo","mind","mind","mute","president","prime-minister","righteousness","sage","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","tongue","virtue","weak"],"id":2626,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":5636,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"},{"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":"Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","borders","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","country","creative-writing","democracy","elections","essay","foreign","governance","government","inspirational","international","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","nation","novel-writing","peace","peaceful","people","philosophy","politics","power","powerful","president","prime-minister","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","republic","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","universe","war","wisdom","world","world-power","writing"],"id":5728,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.","author":"James Madison","tags":["christianity","freedom","president","religion"],"id":5970,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":7324,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"},{"text":"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.","author":"Bob Graham","tags":["war","flaws","president "],"id":7539,"author_id":"Bob+Graham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":323,"pages":33,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}