"I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place their government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues."

-- Rick Weiland

#Order Quotes #Issues Quotes #Government Quotes

“I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.”
“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”

Source : Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.
“Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...”

Source : Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA
“Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.”
“Ignorance is not an extension of time”
“I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.”
“What did I do to deserve this?”
“Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.”

Source : Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.117, Westminster John Knox Press

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