Alexander Bryan Johnson Quotes
We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.
Topics
Choice
Consequences
Control
Force
Lawmaking, Legislating, Legislative Process
Policy, Policy Making
Free Will
Commitment
Irreversibility
Niagara Falls
Unanticipated Consequences
Stream
Philosophy
Acceptance of Outcome
Impulse Control
Natural Forces
Personal Agency
Voluntary Action
Decision-Making
Citations
Alexander Bryan Johnson, 1786–1867, Philosopher, Author and Banker, The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position: 1841
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