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«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.»
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
abusing, attend, blessed with, continual, counsels, inclination, intent, intent on, in case, licentiousness, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, oppositions, pension, pensions, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, popularity, preparing, remoteness, securing, smaller, The Ministry, ungratefully, worried
«Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
abused, abuse of power, arbitrary, established, licentiousness, ruins
«The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
distinction, doctrine, implication, licentiousness, protean, repetition, shape, varying
«No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
felicity, indecencies, indecency, licentiousness, purified
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