#persons

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗

— George Bancroft

#best #development #few #free #government

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. ↗

— William Vickrey

#calling #currently #define #employment #full

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. ↗

— William Cobbett

#create #give #labor #persons #produce

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#enjoy #guys #hang #high #high school

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons. ↗

— Bruce Vento

#day #develop #each #every #every day

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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