Quote by Joseph Story
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligen

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. – Joseph Story

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And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. – Joseph Story

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A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. – Joseph Story

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Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle

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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law. – Gloria Naylor

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