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| Georgia Code | | [T]he jury shall be the judges of the law and the facts in the trial of all criminal cases and shall give a general verdict of “guilty,” or “not guilty.” | |
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| Georgia Supreme Court | | [That] the Jury may determine the law and the fact of the case, has been supported by every English judge, except Chief Justice Jeffries .... And to their credit be it spoken that the Juries have always been right on fundamental questions of liberty and popular right. | |
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| Georgia Supreme Court | | [T]he Jury have not only the power, but the right, to pass upon the law as well as the facts... | |
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| Georgia, Declaration of Rights | | The jury in all criminal cases, shall be the judges of the law and the facts. | |
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| Richard Gephardt | | We can see beyond the present shadow of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace in the post-war period. | |
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| Kenneth Gerbino | | Historically, the United States has been a hard money country. Only [since 1913] has the United States operated on a fiat money system. During this period, paper money has depreciated over 87%. During the preceding 140 year period, the hard currency of the United States had actually maintained its value. Wholesale prices in 1913... were the same as in 1787. | |
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| Kenneth Gerbino | | It is the paper money created out of thin air that creates the unfair distribution of wealth that is making the middle class fall more behind and the poor more poor. Newly created money and credit in a paper money system benefits those that can access the money first and buy capital goods and real property at one price before the new money circulates and makes all prices go up. Wages also do not keep up with inflation and that creates another squeeze on the middle class. | |
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| Anne Louise Germaine de Stael | | Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. | |
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| German Proverb | | One does evil enough when one does nothing good. | |
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| Katherine Fullerton Gerould | | All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. | |
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| Elbridge Gerry | | The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. | |
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| Elbridge Gerry | | Mr. Gerry contended that (the power of the Federal government to purchase lands within states) might be made use of to enslave any particular State by buying up its territory, and that the strongholds proposed would be a means of awing the State into an undue obedience to the Genl. Government...thus after the word ‘purchased’ the words ‘by the consent of the Legislature of the State’ (was added to the Enclave Clause). | |
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| Elbridge Gerry | | What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. | |
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| Jon Gettman | | After a generation of marijuana arrests, nearly 19 million and counting since 1981, the results are that marijuana remains widely used, not perceived as risky by a majority of the population, and widely available. The tremendous variance in use and arrests at the state level demonstrate why marijuana prohibition has failed and is not a viable national policy. | |
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| J. Paul Getty | | The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. | |
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| Georgie Anne Geyer | | An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington … that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this “inevitability” planned it this way. … Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. … The hard-liners who dominate this administration … have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims. | |
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| Onkar Ghate | | Freedom is an intellectual achievement which requires disavowal of collectivism and embrace of individualism. | |
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| A. Bartlett Giamatti | | Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is dominated by the executive. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. | |
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| Edward Gibbon | | The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. | |
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| James Cardinal Gibbons | | Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. | |
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| Khalil Gibran | | He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth or duty. | |
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| Andre Gide | | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. | |
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| Andre Gide | | It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. | |
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| Andre Gide | | Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. | |
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| Andre Gide | | Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. | |
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| John C. Gifford | | One man can completely change
the character of a country,
and the industry of its people,
by dropping a single seed
in fertile soil. | |
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| Ray Gifford | | Indeed, the ABA [American Bar Association] is truly a creature of these post-modern times. Its governing members view the political sphere and judicial sphere as one in the same, and worship raw power as the ultimate and only currency in social transactions. The modern ABA thus has embraced an ideology that views the rule of law as a mere extension of politics, and in a self-fulfilling confirmation of that view, conflates law and politics with unashamedly liberal policy prescriptions. | |
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| George Gilder | | The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state. | |
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| Gerald Gilder | | If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. | |
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| Henry Giles | | Liberty is worth whatever the country is worth. It is by liberty that man has a country; it is by liberty he has rights. | |
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| Henry Giles | | Liberty is worth whatever the best civilization is worth. | |
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| Henry Giles | | Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. | |
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| William Branch Giles | | [It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require. | |
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| Langdon Gilkey | | The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself. | |
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| Brendan Gill | | Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | | The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. | |
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| John Gilmore | | Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death. | |
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| Samuel P. Ginder | | If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. | |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | | If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided. | |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | | The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn’t provide access, another state does. ...
It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people. | |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | | Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. | |
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| Nikki Giovanni | | In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame | |
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| Josiah William Gitt | | Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed. | |
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| Rudolph W. Giuliani | | What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. | |
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| William E. Gladstone | | National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. | |
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| Ellen Glasgow | | All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. | |
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| Arnold H. Glasow | | Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. | |
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| Senator Carter Glass | | Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including the merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? | |
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| Senator Carter Glass | | Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? | |
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| William Glasser | | There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. | |
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| Sen. John Glenn | | Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here...
Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified. | |
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| Arthur Godfrey | | I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. | |
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| Jo Godwin | | A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. | |
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| Mike Godwin | | The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind. | |
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| William Godwin | | Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. | |
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| William Godwin | | Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. | |
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| William Godwin | | Government will not fail to employ education to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions. | |
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| William Godwin | | Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom. | |
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| William Godwin | | To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny. | |
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| William Godwin | | Let us consider the effect that coercion produces upon the mind of him against whom it is employed. It cannot begin with convincing; it is no argument. It begins with producing the sensation of pain, and the sentiment of distaste. It begins with violently alienating the mind from the truth with which we wish it to be impressed. It includes in it a tacit confession of imbecility. If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is important, but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. | |
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| Joseph Paul Goebbels | | To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. | |