Ernst Friedrich Herbert Munster Quotes
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Ernst Friedrich Herbert Munster, 1766-1839, German Ambassador to Russia & England, Letter referring the then Russian Constitution
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Description of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for 71 straight years.
FDR was a marvelous judge of men and their character. De Gaulle could not separate himself from France and pushed the French Republic towards one man rule (himself) as much as anyone since Napoleon Bonaparte.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office. She was commenting on recent attacks against minority Muslims by the majority Buddhists and one of the major reasons she claimed was the lack of trust in the Muslim community that had developed during the period of military dictatorship.
Arguing the need to limit the power of the legislature:
At the time of this statement most people thought that Bush was joking. But by the end of his Presidency many looked back on the quote and thought that Bush had such preferences. He unilaterally took the country into the Iraq War and assumed Presidential Powers that no other president had ever attempted. Most serious, his administration actually took the formal legal position that the President did not have to obey the law if he unilaterally thought that it was not in the nation’s interest from the point of view of the Commander in Chief. So many debate whether this quotation was a light hearted joke of a harbinger of his real feelings about the Presidency.
Many American colonists had relatives and friends in England, and Paine argued that American independence would help and not het the English people.
