Quotes about exercise
exercise people silence
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already? Thomas Jefferson
exercise men rights
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar. Thomas Jefferson
exercise rights people
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods. Thomas Jefferson
exercise thinking law
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty. Thomas Jefferson
exercise differences politics
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves. Thomas Jefferson
exercise power able
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Thomas Jefferson
exercise rights people
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. Thomas Jefferson
exercise government self
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens. Thomas Jefferson
exercise two endurance
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. Thomas Jefferson
exercise violence sound
It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all. Robert Higgs
exercise done obsession
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models. Robert Higgs
exercise opportunity government
Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness. Robert Higgs
exercise government rights
But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights. Rick Santorum
exercise thinking cereal
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches. Tana French
exercise years looks
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years. Vera Wang
exercise medicine air
For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked. Venus Williams
exercise energy alive
Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy. Vanessa Hudgens
exercise pops
I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes! Valerie Bertinelli
exercise golf white
It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for? Ulysses S. Grant
exercise doe students
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment. Richard Whately
exercise solitude want
Exercise is my outlet, the one thing I do during the day that's mine and mine alone. I don't want to work with a trainer, and I don't want to go with friends to the gym. It's my solitude, and I need it. Renee Zellweger
exercise essence sin
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Victoria Woodhull
exercise rights moonshine
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them. Victoria Woodhull
exercise riding neighborhood
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can. Victoria Justice
exercise musician futility
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. Robert Fripp
exercise power mind
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. Robert Fulghum
exercise years legs
I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts. Rita Rudner
exercise soul brain
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. Rene Descartes
exercise men rights
Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties. Thomas Paine
exercise men reason
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Thomas Paine
exercise government limits
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal. Thomas Paine
exercise men wealth
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. Thomas Huxley
exercise drug towns
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. Thomas Sydenham