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In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
(Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), U.S. president. In conversation with George Bancroft, manuscript ledger, George Bancroft Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.)
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
(Daniel Webster (1782-1852), U.S. lawyer, statesman. speech, Jan. 26, 1830, U.S. Senate. Second speech on Foote's Resolution, vol. 6, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster (1903).)
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People who expect deference resent mere civility.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook L," aph. 16, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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People who expect deference resent mere civility.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook L," aph. 16, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. William Propter, in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, pt. I, ch. 9 (1939).
William Propter's assessment of the practical outcomes of beliefs and ideals reflects Huxley's own thinking.)
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