John Howard Quotes
There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.
Howard, John. Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography. HarperCollins, 2010.
She was referring to the aftermath of the Iraq War.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Pareto was one of many who distrusted democracy. He was convinced that America in particular would begin to deteriorate as a result of its democracy. He never envisioned the possibility that the reality is just the opposite of what he believed—that it is democracy that makes capitalism thrive in the long run.
Historically, this is not exactly true. Sometimes the same threat--like international Russian-dominatd communism--spans several generations, and there are a few where there was no new threat and arguably no threat at all. The period from 1880-1910 for exaple had no threat to freedom other than the American monopolists and Industrialists, but they had been a threat even before that. Trump's basic point, however, that there are often new threats to freedom emerging and we must confront that threat.
John Winston Howard OM AC SSI is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007) and Leader of the Liberal Party (1985–1989; 1995–2007). His nearly twelve-year tenure as Prime Minister is the second-longest in history, behind only Sir Robert Menzies, who served for eighteen non-consecutive years. He has also been the oldest living former Australian Prime Minister since the death of Bob Hawke in 2019.
