Accident Quote by Anonymous

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive…

— Adam Smith

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude…

— Rudolf Rocker

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of…

— Samuel Johnson

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties,…

— James Madison

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their…

— Han Fei

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has…

— Gregory Bateson

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing,…

— Aristotle