John Boyd
John Boyd
accurate ahead confident counted election goes governor public results state votes voting
If the Legislature goes ahead with what the governor has recommended, then we will be a state in which the voting public can be confident that the results of the election are going to be verifiably accurate and that their votes can be counted properly.
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The sellers in the auction have the power rather than the buyer. They set the date for the auction and the closing, they set the price and the property is sold as-is. The owner is the power-broker in the sale.
admire agencies fix fixed people problems staying trying
I admire people for staying and trying to fix the problems, but we have other agencies out there that had problems and fixed them, and they are not getting rewarded,
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I'm sure coach ( Mike) Hackett would rather be playing someone other than us. I'd rather play a good team on Tuesday right off the bat. Because it forces you to be ready.
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
court elections issue purity
There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.
social-unrest fabric revolution
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
revenge war lust
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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Whoever was on the grassy knoll in '63 shot better than we did.
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Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
black farmers full move
We want full restitution ... so black farmers can move on with their lives.