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.
Nas
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
Laura Schlessinger
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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.
Natan Sharansky
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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.
Zoe Lofgren
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
Antonio Machado
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Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
Elinor Ostrom
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I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
Quentin S. Crisp
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I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
Sandra Brown
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
Paul Auster
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Man by nature wants to know.
Aristotle
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To go fast, row slowly.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
William O. Douglas
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There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.
Jose Angel Gurria
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The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
Corrie Ten Boom
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
Lao Tzu