#proportion

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. ↗

— George Washington

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#liberty #proportion #restraint #wholesome

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#down #facing #going #graves #manufacturers

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#authority #back #been #certain #changed

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. ↗

— William Hague

#decisive #disproportionate #indecisive #neither #nor

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#get #groups #intelligence #into #inverse

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#great #great man #man #rest #seems

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way. ↗

— John Hutton

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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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