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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ↗

— Socrates

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#executed #gentle #laws #obeyed #seldom

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed. ↗

— Sophocles

#better #concealed #discovered #many #things

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#delivered #lose #none #person #truth

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling! ↗

— Tori Spelling

#i #i am #now #officially #ordained

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#act #again #bill #called #capitol