James Harrington
James Harrington
art men law
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.
passion men vices
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
writing army men
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
men law hands
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
men may firsts
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
men religion terror
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
based believed decisions
It's not because you didn't have the overtime. You made the decisions based on what you believed was the right thing to do,
boats buy children dawson generation gotten hang high history moving north older regard
The older generation did without things to hang on to the land, but their children don't have as high a regard for the history of the property. They want to buy boats and cars. A lot have gotten the idea of moving north to Dawson County.
context taken tapes
The tapes and what's being said on them is being taken out of context by the government,
call continues needed staff
If they needed anything they'd call me but for the most part the staff continues to do what they're doing,
city intimidate sadly
If they think they can intimidate the City Council, they're sadly mistaken, ... We're going to do what we think is the right thing when it comes to this. We're going to do our jobs.
campaign hard kept message starts though worked
We worked very hard to get our message out even though there were a lot of distractions. We kept on message and kept our message positive, ... The campaign starts tomorrow.
absolutely quite taking time
Absolutely not. Actually it's quite the opposite. It's taking time away from the campaign,
exactly
We know exactly what had to be done and we executed it well,