John Taylor of Caroline famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
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Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.
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National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
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But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.
-- John Taylor of Caroline
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
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It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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