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Worth repeating.(political quotes)(Brief Article)
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
-- Edmund Burke (1790)
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us.
-- President Andrew Johnson, Message to the House of Representatives (1867)
In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1798)
A man who aspires to any high office should have three qualifications: first, he should be prepared to support the constitution of his country; second, he should have a special aptitude for the office he desires; and third, he should have virtue and justice as they are understood by his fellow-citizens.
- Public opinion should not dictate officials' decisions.(SunBurst)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) July 12, 2002 700+ words
...got turned upside- down by public opinion. I don't know about you, but I doubt that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and their friends...federal judges to worry about public opinion. I think that was why they...
- Race, sex, and reputation: Thomas Jefferson and the Sally Hemings story.
- Magazine article from: Southern Cultures McDonald, Robert M.S. June 22, 1998 700+ words
By August 1802, the image of Thomas Jefferson had not yet been carved in stone, but it had at least been...Americans' subsequent reactions shed on the dynamics of public opinion in the early republic. Like the Richmond earthquake, rumblings...
- Justice Black's bigotry gets misread as Jefferson's belief: scholars challenge...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Witham, Larry September 2, 2002 700+ words
New research on Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" between...Dreisbach, whose forthcoming book, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between...Hamburger book and has surveyed public opinion on politics and religion...
- Public opinion on DNA paternity testing: the influence of the media.
- Magazine article from: People and Place Gilding, Michael Turney, Lyn June 1, 2006 700+ words
...of media coverage, there is good cause to suggest that public opinion might have shifted on the question of whether paternity...Williams Show. The paternity struggles of celebrities, from Thomas Jefferson to Bill Cosby, from Yves Montand to Hollywood producer...
- Support for local schools still strong.(public opinion)(Brief article)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Phi Delta Kappan September 1, 2006 700+ words
Thomas Jefferson had a vision that democracy would survive only "with the general diffusion of knowledge." It is reassuring to know that the...
- Thomas Jefferson evolves into a perennial state-title threat
- Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Tricia Lafferty September 4, 2009 700+ words
...with a touchdown pass from former Thomas Jefferson quarterback Brad Dawson to Dom DeCicco...the 2004 WPIAL Class AAA semifinal, Thomas Jefferson overcame what was a 10-point deficit...minutes left -- to defeat Blackhawk. Thomas Jefferson's dominance can be traced to that...
- Group of Defenders of Thomas Jefferson's Reputation Settle Lawsuit brought by...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 5, 2000 700+ words
...formed a corporation called "The Thomas Jefferson Foundation" in early May 2000 to...paternity of Sally Hemings' children by Thomas Jefferson. This organization was formed as...recent efforts by many to portray Thomas Jefferson as a hypocrite, liar and fraud...
- A chat with Thomas Jefferson (also known as ... William Barker).(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Appleseeds Hall, Barbara March 1, 2006 700+ words
...Barbara Hall chatted with Thomas Jefferson recently. Or did she? Read...all much as they were in Thomas Jefferson's time. Your companion...Barker. He is a professional Thomas Jefferson "interpreter" in Colonial...
