There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Variant: There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Book I, ch. 39.Michel de Montaigne
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Adam Smith
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
Jane Jacobs
"The Kingdom of God is plainly that state of temporal affairs which, by a proper distribution of labor, enables the entire human family to cultivate their best faculties. The Kingdom of God commences in this world, will progress in the next, and in all other worlds ...." (from The Quaker City weekly, March 30, 1850)
George Lippard
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected Parliament as the supreme law making body in the United Kingdom.
Tony Benn
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