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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 years long
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope. Thomas Jefferson
government
That government that governs least governs best. Thomas Jefferson
government newspapers
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
government citizens function
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call. Thomas Jefferson
government occupation becoming
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain. Thomas Jefferson
government imperfection comparison
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist. Thomas Jefferson
government law democracy
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. Thomas Jefferson
government benefits bears
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits. Thomas Jefferson
justice wells subjects
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. Thomas Aquinas
justice wheels sometimes
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. Terry Waite
justice firsts social-justice
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. Jules Michelet
justice moderation bases
Moderation is the basis of justice. George MacDonald
justice design doe
Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself. Emanuel Swedenborg