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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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
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We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
