Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.

Richard Hooker · Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593), bk. 1

Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.

Richard Hooker

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I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.

Margaret Chase Smith · The source reads: “The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” · Declaration of Conscience, U.S. Senate (June 1, 1950)

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

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“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.”

“Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.”

“I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”