John of Salisbury Quotes
Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
Salisbury, John of. The Statesman's Book of John of Salisbury. Translated by John Dickinson, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, p. 3.
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been attacked by terrorists. The Vice President and other White House senior staff had followed procedure and gone to the protected bunker in the basement of the White House. Cheney was right in that he and the President instituted many illegal practices and taking power from Congress and the Courts. However, the things they elected to do to skirt if not defy the law, were not even good policy and Cheney and Bush became the “government of men” but the result was one of the worst and least popular administrations.
Bartolo was the most famous legal expert of his day and for many years thereafter as he died at the age of 44—the height of his career. In Italy, Spain and other nations of Europe there were statutes passed that said if there was no precedent in Roman Law, the writings of Bartolo should dictate the law.
McClellan thought President Lincoln an oaf and toyed with the idea of taking over. Ironically, he was a terrible battle general and never would have any reasonable success on the battlefield.
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.
The George W. Bush administration had a reelection coming up and this administration had raised opacity to a new high in American History.
John of Salisbury, who described himself as Johannes Parvus ("John the Little"), was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres.
