#administered

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#best #contest #fools #forms #government

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#benefits #cause #convey #examine #harms

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#administered #approval #case #court #done

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#down #field #i #later #office

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#comfort #known #man #oldest #skillfully

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#body #gets #law #medicine #must

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ashamed #background #either #feel #i

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. ↗

— Sophocles

#among #base #command #does #fear

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants. ↗

— Montel Williams

#amount #costs #directly #donations #get