Deriving Their Just Powers Quotes & Sayings

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. — Thucydides

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them. — A. Scott Berg

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. — Cory Doctorow

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous. — Criss Jami

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator. — Ezra Taft Benson

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. — Gilda Radner

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value. — Vartan Gregorian

A face without a smile is like a sky without a sun. — Debasish Mridha

Life journeys. On the way, you are influenced by others, helped by others, harmed by others. Some things happen because you have earned them. And some things happen because cruelty flickers through the dark currents and rises up without warning; causing harm, causing pain, causing tragedies that can devastate one person or and entire village. — Anne Bishop

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe, those who ratified the constitution conceived, that this is not an indefinite government deriving its powers from the general terms prefixed to the specified powers - but, a limited government tied down to the specified powers, which explain and define the general terms. — James Madison

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study. — Shiloh Fernandez

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. — Roger Zelazny

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. — Mignon McLaughlin

The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have. — Dean Koontz