Katilimi seviyorum ama ya senin katilini! Onu nasıl affedebilirim?

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

the habits of the governed determine in a great degree what is practicable.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson’s frequent use of “it’s” for “its” and “recieve” for “receive,

Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet we can assess a man's views on a moral issue - which slavery unquestionably was - by what others in the same age and facing the same realities thought and did.

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will,” Jefferson said.72 “This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.…1 Nothing is required for this enlightenment … except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. —IMMANUEL KANT, “What Is Enlightenment?” The

You don’t kick a man when he is down,” Bush dictated. “You don’t revel in his demise. You don’t pile on in life.

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