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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 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.
government
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.
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
might
might not be an appropriate place for him to stay. Thomas Reid
might
Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough. Chuck Smith
might opponent plays side wait
Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out, Eliot Spitzer
might understand wall ways
who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.
might
who might not like what we have to say. Kweisi Mfume
might
Who knows? You don't know who you might draw. Chris Morrison
might
I thought it might have been a violation. But I'm not an official. Mike Fratello
might sometimes
It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary. Gerry Adams
might volume pious
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Herbert Spencer