"A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand."

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Walter Savage Landor

#Government Quotes #Long Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.”
“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”
“A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”
“No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.”
“When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.”
“People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.”
“I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.”
“The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of Godâ€™s gifts!”

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