"The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it."

-- Edmund Morgan

#Exercise Quotes #Government Quotes #History Quotes

“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
“Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.”
“We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
“Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.”
“If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.”

Source : "Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime". Book by Richard Pipes, 1993.
“The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.”

Source : John Angell James (1848). “An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times”, p.16
“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”
“I couldn't imagine recording a track and not being able to perform it.”

Source : Source: www.rapireland.com

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