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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Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.
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Education begins at the level of the learner.
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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
