"It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Democracies Have Quotes #Government Quotes #Law Quotes

“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.”
“A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.”
“A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."”
“When we spend our lives waiting until weâ€™re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make,”
“I donâ€™t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansâ€¦ itâ€™s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, itâ€™s not who you loveâ€¦ a man, a woman, what have youâ€¦ itâ€™s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.”
“We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.”

Source : H. Emilie Cady (2016). “The Collected Works of H. Emilie Cady: Spiritual Guidance Books & New Thought Classics: Lessons In Truth - Practical Christianity Course + How I Used Truth & God + A Present Help”, p.11, e-artnow
“The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done.”
“Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.178, Cosimo, Inc.

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