#nation

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

#complacency #constantly #defeat #explain #explanations

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. ↗

— William Bell Riley

#evolution #fact #first #hypothesis #important

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ↗

— Jesse Brown

#black and white #blue #brown #flag #god

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#commerce #fate #genius #nations

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#corresponding #efficacious #i #i do #know

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

#denied #discovered #even #governor #hearing

People can die of mere imagination. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#imagination #mere #people