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Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. -- Joseph Lancaster
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. -- John Howe
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. -- George Washington
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. -- Eliza Farnham
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. -- Richard Cobden
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. -- John Hickenlooper
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. -- Charles Babbage
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another. -- Richard Rohr
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so. -- Charles Dickens
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. -- Daniel Webster
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? -- Samuel Johnson
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. -- Mary McCarthy
Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.' -- Anna Julia Cooper
Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths. -- Roland V. Libonati
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance. -- John Walford
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . . -- John C. Calhoun
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live. -- Benjamin Franklin
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. -- Paul Ryan
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway. -- Miguel Syjuco
Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good. -- Adoniram Judson
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay. -- Ian Frazier
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you. -- Paul Schrader
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done. -- Joe Klein
The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers. -- Perry Chen
To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit. -- F. Sionil Jose
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case. -- Jess Walter
Social service that savours of patronage is not service. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage. -- Wayne Pacelle
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage. -- Harry Gordon Selfridge
It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage. -- David Galula
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. -- James Buchanan
I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage. -- Amy Plum
Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage. -- Armstrong Sperry
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers. -- Ludwig von Mises
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. -- Neil Kinnock
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place. -- Margaret Thatcher
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage. -- Susanna Clarke
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives. -- Brooks Atkinson
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage. -- Thomas Merton
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience. -- Jonathan Culler

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