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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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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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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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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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
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I think they kind of left it to him. From my understanding was he was able to do that last week, but he wanted to wear it another week just to make sure.
