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'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.		Saturday Jun 13, 2026
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Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else. Don Marquis

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	Don Marquis
	Don Marquis (July 29, 1878 Walnut, Illinois - December 29, 1937 New York City) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is best remembered for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. Read More

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. If you are not honest at all everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

There is nothing so habit forming as money.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.