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President Theodore Roosevelt Opening ofthe Jamestown Exposition Norfolk, Virginia, April 26, 1907
‘’…it behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. Iffrom lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self- indulgence, they refuse to govern themselves then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governedfrom the outside. They canpreventtheneedofgovernmentfrom withoutonlybyshowing they possess the power o f government from within. A sovereign cannot make excuses for his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise o fpower that inheres in ·him; and where, as is true in our Republic, the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose ifthey are to preserve that orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest. “
Roman Maxim of Law
He who remains silent certainly does not speak, but nevertheless it is true that he does not deny
