"Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers."

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Source : Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.138

Fisher Ames

#Heart Quotes #Law Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesnâ€™t let fear of failure stop them.”
“I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.”
“After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!”
“He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.”
“Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.”
“I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.”
“A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed”
“Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.”

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