![We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-the-government-are-here-not-as-masters-but-as-servants-we-are-not-here-to-g.jpg)
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exercise goal help love teaching
What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else. Billy Blanks
exercise beer play
I'm a little older and fatter now, and I'm not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there's something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won't get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I'm happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. Fat and arrogant is what I'm bringing to the script. Luke Wilson
exercise harassment superiors
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. Michael Crichton
exercise mind body
Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.
exercise mind opinion
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. Michel de Montaigne
exercise boys men
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
exercise thinking medicine
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health. Michael Sandel
exercise confusing dominion
Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.
exercise playing sure
Make sure you exercise more than once a week. Make sure you're active, even when you're not playing basketball. John Leddy
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government sight important
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments... Thomas Paine
government design benefits
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
government design world
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.
government religion firsts
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
government long waiting
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. Timothy Geithner
government masters servant
The federal government is our servant, not our master. Thomas Jefferson
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
government degrees public-opinion
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.