Quotes about Stability

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Milton Friedman

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. ... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

Spanish Proverb

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Madeleine Albright

Prosperity is a parent to peace.

Karl Popper

Only freedom can make security secure.

Benjamin Franklin

A republic—if you can keep it.

He had been asked by other delegates what Franklin thought they had just created.

George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

Marcus Aurelius

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Jeremy Hunt

Our commitment to Afghanistan is a long-term one. We put a huge amount of resources into trying to make sure there is peace in that country, a huge amount of development assistance, a huge amount of political support for the government.

Frank Peretti

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

The Turkish revolution was by historical standards relatively bloodless as compared especially with other republican revolutions like the United State and France. However, the revolution that brought Ataturk to power was a relatively mild one in terms of the immediate changes that unlike many revolutions which produced instant radical change. In Turkey, the radical change took place in the years after the revolution when Ataturk with hardly any bloodshed produced compulsory public secular education, scientific elevation in society, separation of mosque and state, gender equality including universal voting, change to western dress, elimination of the caliphate, speech and press freedom, and many others including changing the entire language to use the Latin alphabet instead of Arabic. No nation in history has gone thought more social and cultural change and modernized so fast as Turkey after its revolution. The result is the most modern and successful Islamic country in the world.

Jeff Nichols

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Marianne Williamson

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

Kelvin Fletcher

I'll be happiest when I've got my wife and my home.

George Santayana

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Arab Proverb

Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

The dictator that he thought Russia needed, Stalin, turned on him in 1937 for not agreeing with Stalin enthusiastically enough, had a 1 day trial for treason, and executed the best military man in the country despite the fact that Russia would need its military to fight the German invasion.