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hands looks remakes
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
hands guy fists
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. Ricardo Montalban
hands republican-government numbers
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. James Madison
hands liable humans
All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
hands danger tyranny
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.
hands political trying
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.
hands government political
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.
hands giving brain
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
hands long helping
I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander. James Long
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 energetic free-government
A free government is of all others the most energetic. Thomas Jefferson
government ifs presses
If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
government purpose abandoned
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
government people historical
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
government feet acting
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.
government done intention
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
government revolution patriot
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
political-will renewable-resources abundance
Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose. Al Gore
political president campaigns
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial. Dick Morris
political enemy may
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim Thomas Paine
political politics speak
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! Victor Hugo
political littles path
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. George Washington
political causes noble
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press. Larry Niven
political important world
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts. Karl Popper
political favors reform
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies. Joel Miller
political special pressure
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.