From these two distinct rights, the one of punishing the crime for restraint, and preventing the like offence, which right of punishing is in every body; the other of taking reparation, which belongs only to the injured party, comes it to pass that the magistrate, who by being magistrate hath the common right of punishing put into his hands, can often, where the public good demands not the execution of the law, remit the punishment of criminal offences by his own authority, but yet cannot remit the satisfaction due to any private man for the damage he has received.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

To lay down extensive, but distinct and settled limits, to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights; to enable individual man to maintain whatever independence, strength, and original power he still possesses; to raise him by the side of society at large, and uphold him in that position—these appear to me the main objects of legislators in the ages upon which we are now entering.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Note 7 ( return ) [ The embassy consisted of Count Romulus; of Promotus, president of Noricum; and of Romanus, the military duke.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Every physician of large experience knows that he can relieve or produce pain simply by suggestion.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This is not idle speculation, for the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot actually proved it could be done (forgive me for harping on this one example, but no other government has had the guts to do the same thing).
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

They are often mere conventionalised reductions of pictorial prototypes, comparable, for instance, to the characters of our alphabets, which are known to be degraded forms of earlier pictographs.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

RESULT OF THE ELECTORAL COUNT CHRONOLOGIC REVIEW OF PEACE PROPOSALS
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The captain has lost his glasses, and therefore he cannot read our pocket prayer-books as much as I think he would like, though he is not familiar with them.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

This I did, as far as in my power, conscientiously endeavour to prevent; knowing that, if union and good faith were not inviolably preserved among the constitutional republicans, our past, present, and future exertions would be unavailing.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Doubtless the satisfaction was very general among the citizens, regardless of political prepossessions, when it became known that Captain Baynell with a detachment of horse artillery had gone out and taken up a position that had enabled him at last to silence the [Pg 290] Confederate guns on the pinnacle, not, however, before the masked battery by the river was practically dismounted.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

In the main, the current record of past production and estimates of the management as to ore-reserves, etc., can be accepted in ratio to the confidence that can be placed in the men who present them.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

The conductors were divided into three classes: The first of which received a certain rate of pay per month the first year of service; an addition of ten per cent.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

WASHINGTON LAW BOOK CO. Readings on personal property.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office