#presumption

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. ↗

— Hesiod

#evil #her #justice #kings #path

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#general #govern #governed #man #people

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#guy #i #i think #kind #know

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead