Fools out of Favour grudge at Knaves in Place,And men are always honest in Disgrace:The Court-Preferments make men Knaves in course:But they which wou'd be in them wou'd be worse.'Tis not at Foreigners that we repine,Wou'd Foreigners their Perquisites resign:The Grand Contention's plainly to be seen,To get some men put out, and some put in.For … Continue reading Daniel Defoe on English politicians
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English government summarised
“It is agreed to by all really disinterested persons, that the government of England—not any individual government, but the general system—is one mass of immorality in practice, whatever it may be in theory. The whole working is founded on a system of conventional hypocrisy from first to last. The general modes of doing business are … Continue reading English government summarised
