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“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.”

Wisdom Politics Interesting Economy Circumstances Property Valuable Our Family Liberalism Belonging Ancestry Perpetuating

Book:Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

Source: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”

Ifs Men May Politics Speak Ability Politician Circumstances Notion Ill Vague Tact

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.”

May States Helping Problem Political Politics Technology Higher Circumstances Protection Planning Ideology Firm Manifestation Technological Compulsion Political Will

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.”

“I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.”

Politics Interest Economy Circumstances Increase Slavery Slave Compromise All Time Limitation Combination Liberalism Representation Extensions

Author:Daniel Webster

“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

Political Politics Causes Economy Economic Circumstances Charity Injustice Imperfect Philanthropy Charitable Philanthropic Philanthropist Commendable Philanthropy Inspiration Economic Injustice

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”

People Doe Politics Speak Failing Circumstances Deserve Concern Sensitive Arrogant

Book:The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda

“Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”

Giving Reality Political Politics Principles Mankind Effects Color Politician Circumstances Schemes Beneficial

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)