Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Kann es einer erklären? http://www.jedipedia.net/wiki/Jawa
So, fans of The Walking Dead and Star Wars: here’s your mashup.
There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong…. In fact it is only reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right.
—James Madison, letter to James Monroe, 1786
We are a nation of laws, a republic. Not a mob-rules democracy.
Phil, this wasn’t fucking amateur hour. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SUPERVISION. THERE WERE RAPTORS ALL UP IN THE KITCHEN PHIL. IN THE GOD DAMN KITCHEN.
YOU HAD ONE JOB PHIL. ONE JOB.
I laughed inappropriately at my desk at this.
It’s always nice to have a really good laugh in the morning.
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.
–James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790
Kauai, Hawaii, shooing away the clouds. lushly beautiful Nā Pali Coast clearly visible from orbit,
Swoon.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
–Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression … that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; … working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821