The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything
which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
-- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"
which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
-- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"
Related:
- every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any
Right to but himself.
The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands,... - The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people
to do good and difficult for them to do evil.
Gladstone... - There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself
and his family.
But he can't make a living for them AND the government... - A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on
justice,
even as far as men understand it. -- Henry David Thoreau... - If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.
Murphy's Law of... - Murphy's Law of Government: If anything can go wrong,
it will do so in triplicate... - That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau,
"Civil... - We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are
represented in this programme.
It was never our intention to imply that politicians... - That government is best which governs the least, because its people
discipline themselves.
Thomas...
From the same category:
- The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to... - I saw a man with a wooden leg, and a real foot.
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Stephen... - This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were
no religion in it.
John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson... - Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people
against whom gun bans are aimed.
Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants... - The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
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Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184...
