"No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people."

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Source : Lysander Spooner (1852). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.19

Lysander Spooner

#Power Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.”
“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”
“The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.”
“There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.”
“People retire to do what I do every day.”
“We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.45
“I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.”
“Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.”

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