James Harrington Quotes

#1. The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

James Harrington

#2. A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

James Harrington

#3. Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

William James

#4. Lesson no. 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.

Francois Lelord

#5. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

James Harrington

#6. At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.

H. James Harrington

#8. I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

Leighton Meester

#9. What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

Ravi Shankar

#10. Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Narendra Modi

#11. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis Cupid's fire.

James Harrington

#12. Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

James Harrington

#13. We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.

Anne Lamott