Thomas More Quotes
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet Garrett
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
Owen Paterson
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
Carly Fiorina
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
Carly Fiorina
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Rand Paul
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Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.
Jack Ramsay
