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“National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.”

Government Law Ability Security Trust Protect Accounts Preserves National Security Electorate Public Trust

Author:Al Franken

“I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.”

“Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.”

States Law Wise Fate Mark Preserves Fixed

Book:An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory

“I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.”

“In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.”

Kind Body Law Certain Sin Sacrifice Offers Constitution Vices Punishment Primaries Preserves Fixed Excess Temperance

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.”

People Men Mean Law Fighting Liberty Conflict Eternal Constitution Preserves Obliged

Book:Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”