A Quotes
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“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.”
“A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.”
“A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.”
Source: The Historic Speech of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at the Rivonia Trial: As Delivered from the Dock on April 20, 1964
“A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.”
Source: Collected works of John Stuart Mill
“A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.”
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
“A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.”
Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
“A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.”
“A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS.”
Source: The federalist papers
“A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)
“A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.”
“A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.”
Source: The Outlook
“A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”
“A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.”
“A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.”
“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”
“A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.”
Source: The Romantic Manifesto
“A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.”
Source: God & Caesar: Christian Faith & Political Action
“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”
“A graduation ceremony marks what you've learned; wisdom begins with what you're still willing to learn.”
“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”
Source: On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
“A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.”
“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”
“A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.”
“A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.”
“A grammarian's daughter made love with a man,
and the poor creature gave birth to a child
who was, in orderly sequence:
masculine, feminine, and neuter.”
“A gramme is better than a damn.”
Source: Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.”
“A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.”
“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
“A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor”
“A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.”
“A grand legacy isn't built on one giant leap, but on a thousand small steps taken for others.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.”
“A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.”
“A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.”
“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”
“A grande maioria de nós não é capaz de escutar; sentimo-nos obrigado a julgar, pois escutar é muito perigoso. O primeiro requisito é a coragem, e nem sempre a temos”
“A grandes rasgos, fracasaste. Así es la vida. Cuánto más vives, más fracasas. El fracaso es la medida de una vida bien llevada. Y la única forma de vivir sin fracaso es no servir de nada a nadie.”
“A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?”
Source: The Green Mile
“A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.”
“A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe
“A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.”
“A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.”
“A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.”
“A Grandmother is a safe haven.”
Source: The Grandmother Principles
“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”
“A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.”