The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. – Voltaire

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Art
category

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. – George Jean Nathan

Category:
Art

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Art

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Art

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Although as a sailor I despised politics – for I loved my sailors life and still love it today – conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. – Fritz Sauckel

Category:
Attitude

Im so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that Ive have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life. – Britney Spears

Category:
amazing

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, its at the bottom. Its the people who are in school systems that dont educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. – Clarence Thomas

Category:
Society

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said hed like to help, but hes pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army. – Conan OBrien

Category:
Government