Bad Governance Quotes
He was referring to governments that imposed some form of morality in their citizens. Free governments do no dictate a morality and require their citizens to follow it. He was very much opposed to Prohibition which he saw as a poor government—Herbert Hoover’s Administration—which was imposing its narrow morality on all. He was very suspicious of government actions where the government claimed that the action was for moral objectives. This is a classic Libertarian view. In general, it is Fundamentalists and ideologues who want to impose their particular morality on all. See {620693} for a related idea.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The Prime Minister was coping with a scandal where there was an incident where British soldiers had abused Iraq prisoners of war. They were being held to account criminally.
The President was a great reformer who faced the corruption problem squarely when he assumed office and made stunning reforms rapidly to where Georgia became a model of what could be done to reform a corrupt culture.
The money comparison refers to Gresham's Law. See Thomas Gresham.
For this and other “insulting” remarks, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in 1804 and killed him. However, the result was that Hamilton’s view of Burr was given huge publicity and Burr’s political career died along with Hamilton.
