 Quote > A safe depository of the ultimate powers of the societyI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/29/2005 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice04/29/05 :: Folder :: Education01/28/05 :: Person :: Thomas Jefferson 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.  12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 10/02/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.  11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.  02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 04/28/05 :: Article :: Education: The Topless Tower of Bad Thought :: Criticizing modern elitist thought and the modern dialog03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? :: 02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?  03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus11/04/04 :: Article :: A -> B -> C :: But wait..I only like B. I hate C!11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage09/04/03 :: Quote :: Lyndon JohnsonYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 08/18/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Live free or die08/15/05 :: Quote :: R.S. Surtees (author)More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. 06/30/03 :: Article :: Please enter your date of birth and gender :: Fighting for individuality in a world that doesn't care06/07/05 :: Article :: Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation :: The living Constitution be damned06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. 02/27/08 :: Quote :: DaveOh, that's my problem: I inform people against their will! 01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot) |
