Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
He reached down and fingered his hoodie on the bed. 'You sleeping with this?' His voice grew raspy. I shrugged. 'Maybe.' He growled, wrapped his arms around me, and buried his face in my shoulder. 'You really test my limits,' he said. Then I heard hi...
So long as you believe yourself to be 'only human' you have accepted life in a prison cell whose door remains locked only by your own mind. By saying, 'well, I'm only human', you have blindly submitted to all the limitations, fears, pettiness, greed ...
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can’t help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.
In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.
