Outline of Saint Helena - Government and Politics of Saint Helena

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“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
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“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
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“A few hours’ mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity—and liberty is finally added by sleep.”
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“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”
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