If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is,… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and… — Ben Chandler Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even… — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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