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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. Thomas Paine
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. Thomas Paine
government religion firsts
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. Thomas Paine
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
average bigger game per points sharing somebody
Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat. Bobby Martin
average prize-money competition
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. Bobby Rahal
average people trying
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. Florence Nightingale
average suits income
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. George Orwell
average would-be literature
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.' George Orwell
average missing looks
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average. Cassandra Clare
average feelings rising
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. George Eliot
average growth president
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. Fred Allen
average college employers graduates increases offered salary
By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectable, and some were standouts. Marilyn Mackes
parent months hollywood
I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old. Linda Evans