Insufficient Privileges Quotes & Sayings

Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial aristocracy. To bring that refractory land into cultivation, the constant and interested exertions of the owner himself were necessary; and when the ground was prepared, its produce was found to be insufficient to enrich a proprietor and a farmer at the same time. The land was then naturally broken up into small portions, which the proprietor cultivated for himself. Land is the basis of an aristocracy, which clings to the soil that supports it; for it is not by privileges alone, nor by birth, but by landed property handed down from generation to generation, that an aristocracy is constituted. A nation may present immense fortunes and extreme wretchedness; but unless those fortunes are territorial, there is no true aristocracy, but simply the class of the rich and that of the poor. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls. — Duncan D. Hunter

Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul. — Matthew Donnelly

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day. — Michael Kelly

Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do. — Henry Jacobsen

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches. — Mata Amritanandamayi