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Letter "R" » rulers
«The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| Keywords:
a people, concealed, liberties, rulers, secure, transaction, transactions
«What luck for the rulers that men do not think»
«The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Right
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conduct, divine right, dreaded, envied, indefeasible, indisputable, rulers, to that, unalienable
«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
admitted, assert, asserts, bulwark, cling, cling to, declare, declared, declared war, declare war, doctrine, freedom of speech, hush, hushed, Hushing, opposition, privileges, propagated, propagates, propagating, Rights and privileges, rulers, screened, scrutiny, sentiment, the press, unworthy, unworthy of, war cry
«Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; / And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; / With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; / I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.»
Author: Bible
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Art of War, battle-axe, break in, captains, flock, husbandman, kingdoms, maid, old maid, oxen, rider, rulers, shepherd, The Art of War, The Chariot, The Shepherd, The Young Man, yoke, yoked, yokes
«The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of th»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
attentive, beyond doubt, deprive, instances, least resistance, oppressions, rulers
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