Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the KING of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, EFFORTS to broaden the POLITICAL PARTICIPATION of the populations of the region.
Read MoreI BELIEVE that movements to suppress WRONGS can be carried out under the PROTECTION of our FLAG.
Read MoreWe OUGHT not to forget that the government, through all its departments, JUDICIAL as well as others, is administered by delegated and RESPONSIBLE agents; and that the power which REALLY controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
Read MoreFanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than INTELLECT and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of THINGS, movements originating in it RUN down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.
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