Quotes about exercise
exercise people silence
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already? Thomas Jefferson
exercise men rights
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.
exercise rights people
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.
exercise thinking law
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
exercise differences politics
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
exercise power able
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
exercise rights people
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
exercise government self
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.
exercise two endurance
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.
exercise violence sound
It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all. Robert Higgs
exercise done obsession
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.
exercise opportunity government
Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness.
exercise government rights
But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights. Rick Santorum
exercise government voters
Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government. Walter Lippmann
exercise may live-free
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.
exercise law rights
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor. Voltaire
exercise self quirky
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self. William Stafford
exercise doors mind
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. William Ramsay
exercise tyrants slavery
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt
exercise people personality
We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right. William Randolph Hearst
exercise wind mind
What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind. William Butler Yeats
exercise power lust
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. Winston Churchill
exercise order justice
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order William J. Brennan
exercise rights views
A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view. William Jennings Bryan
exercise self realizing
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. Woodrow Wilson
exercise jew
Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise. William Shatner
exercise men giving
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman. William James
exercise looks body
I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going. Will Ferrell
exercise thinking people
I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.
exercise thinking acting
That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.
exercise theatre vices
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles. Willem Dafoe
exercise serving-others virtue
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. Saint Francis de Sales
exercise suffering wicked
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. Saint Augustine