Quote by George Will
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral educ

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life. – George Will

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If you seek Hamiltons monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamiltons country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. – George Will

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Government
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will

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Ethics
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. – George Bernard Shaw

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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball

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Ethics

Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. – Albert Schweitzer

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. – John Keats

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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. – Donna Brazile

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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And Im a pretty positive person – I dont put a lot of energy into worrying, and Im not a person who lives in a great deal of fear. – Rachel Hunter

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