It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
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Charles Manson
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
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Gideon J. Tucker
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class...
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Frank Herbert
Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original...
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David E. Wilkins
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Thomas Jefferson
More Quotes By George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate...
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
