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Gustav Freytag (July 13, 1816 - April 30, 1895) was a German dramatist and novelist.
Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.
Theocritus
'A government of laws and not of men.' Adams published articles in 1774 in the Boston, Massachusetts, Gazette using the pseudonym 'Novanglus.' In this paper he credited James Harrington with expressing the idea this way. Harrington described government as 'the empire of laws and not of men' in his 1656 work, The Commonwealth of Oceana, p. 35 (1771). The phrase gained wider currency when Adams used it in the Massachusetts Constitution, Bill of Rights, article 30 (1780).Works, vol. 4, p. 230.
John Adams, Jr.
There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'
Dr. William Ralph Inge
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