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Quote of Winston Churchill - If you have ten thousand regulations...


Biography - Winston Churchill:

British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.



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Quotes for: respect


Quotes

Quotes about respect:


It often happens that we are respected in proportion as we respect ourselves.





We respect a man who respects himself.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?





Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.











Quotes for: law


Quotes

Quotes for: law


Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.





There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.





People must help one another it is nature's law.





Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.





Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.











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Winston Churchill also said...


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.





The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.





Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.





The price of greatness is responsibility.





Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.





For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.












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