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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
So then because some towns in England are not represented,
America is to have no representative at all. They read more
So then because some towns in England are not represented,
America is to have no representative at all. They are "our
children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a
stone.
A government of laws, and not of men.
A government of laws, and not of men.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Good government is no substitute for self-government
Good government is no substitute for self-government
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our read more
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.