I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>