“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.” ShouldYearsMayCountryUseGovernmentMightAgeAmericaEnjoyInterestingMilitaryPositionArmsCitizensBasesPropertyProtectionPrimariesOfficialsProportionExceptionUniformsAccustomedEmergenciesVery InterestingDefenceMilitiaFree GovernmentFounding Fathers GunShort Notice Author:George Washington
“A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.” Has BeensTwoEnjoyClassRichMiddleStandardsOrdinaryWorkersPopulationDecadesLuxuryProportionBritainMiddle ClassPrerogative Author:Anthony Crosland
“Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.” IfsHumansMayEnjoyHoursPleasureToo MuchProduceHuman LifeProportionEnviousMorrowConversesPresent TimeFly AwayShortness Author:Horace
“The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.” MenGovernmentEnjoyPrinciplesEvery ManProportionStable Book:Politics Source: Politics
“Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.” IfsThinkingMenShouldGovernmentLawEnjoyJusticePrinciplesEqualAgreeEvery ManAbstractProportionStable Author:Aristotle
“To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.” ArtReasonAbleArtistEnjoyPleasureEffectsArt IsWheelsProportionWorks Of ArtMachinery Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.” BookCareEnjoyProportionI Care Author:Jim Harrison