"The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity."

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Source : Vindiciae Gallicae sec. 1 (1791)

James Mackintosh

#Faith Quotes #Wise Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.”
“It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!”
“Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.”
“And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.”
“This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.”
“We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.”
“The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.”

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