#ministers

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. ↗

— Lord Caradon

#make #ministers #out #prime #prime ministers

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#even #few #galling #government #husbands

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#church #end #i #ministers #ordered

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#arts #fine #fine arts #highest #human

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment. ↗

— George Whitefield

#better #expect #far #flesh #glory

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#interpreters #judges #law #laws #magistrates

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere