A Quote by Samuel Johnson
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
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I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.
Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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