William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
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Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
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I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
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I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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To go fast, row slowly.
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It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.
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A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
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There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
