“The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.”
1960s, Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)
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“They have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many.”
leges habent perquam paucas. sufficiunt enim sic institutis paucissimae. quin hoc in primis apud alios improbant populos, quod legum interpretumque uolumina, non infinita sufficiunt. ipsi uero censent iniquissimum; ullos homines his obligari legibus; quae aut numerosiores sint, quam ut perlegi queant; aut obscuriores quam ut a quouis possint intelligi.
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 7 : Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
Context: They have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many. They very much condemn other nations whose laws, together with the commentaries on them, swell up to so many volumes; for they think it an unreasonable thing to oblige men to obey a body of laws that are both of such a bulk, and so dark as not to be read and understood by every one of the subjects.
"The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud"
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 13, section 3 (p. 136; Shimrod to Melancthe)
“Yee have many strings to your bowe.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Opinions need a willing ear.”
Beyond the Sindhis (2002)
“Message to Those Participating in Roosevelt Day Commemoration (29 January 1961) http://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedy-quotations/commemorative-message-on-roosevelt-day." Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers, "New Minute Men Urged by Kennedy," The New York Times(30 January 1961) pg. 13
1961