#guardians

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of The Lawes Resolutions [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#common-law #empowerment #fathers #feminism #feudalism

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement. ↗

— William Joyce

#guardians-of-childhood #inspiration #dreams

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#airmen #commanders #communicate #deployment #enables

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ancestors #back #children #continuum #fundamental

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#guardians #i #i wonder #in fact #life

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#bronze #business #chosen #guardians #had

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. ↗

— James Madison

#churches #guardians #instance #liberties #people

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#because #cannot #children #choices #guardians

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#mirth #rights #should #thinkers #world

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#did #else #gate #guardians