Voltaire Quotes
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
Voltaire. Candide. Translated by Tobias Smollett, Boni and Liveright, 1918.
“Boards” was the term used then for groups which have collective executive power or responsibility. Modern terminology has added “commissions,” and in France and elsewhere “committee” have been used to describe executive groups in some cases as in the “Committee for Public Safety.”
Churchill's first government job was as Undersecretary of the Colonies. Shortly after his appointment he observed:
In 1862 after a Sioux uprising, a U. S. military commission condemned 303 Indians to death. President Lincoln wanted to delegate reviewing the sentences for possible pardon. The President personally reviewed the records of each case and pardoned most. On December 26, 1862 the largest public execution in American history took place with 38 Indians hanged.
He had asked Acheson to be Secretary of State and Acheson told the President that he did not feel qualified to do the job. Acheson then accepted.
You see this palace is now yours, and the city is in your power; what do you think ought to be done?
Their first act was to “elect” him Gonfalonier.
Henry of Navarre. The Great Council was the first proposed International governing body—a precursor to the EEC, the UN and the League of Nations. Henry's plan included an international army and navy to enforce the decisions. See {622121} for another name for the idea.
McGovern partisans were hostile to the Congressman in his own home district:
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; also US: /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
