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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.


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JEFFREY FRY No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
ISABEL ALLENDE Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capac...
ELIOT SPITZER Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will h...
WOLE SOYINKA Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all pol...
ANDREW JACKSON Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of governm...
TONY BLAIR Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what e...
MATTHEW SIMPSON As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of th...
TADASHI YANAI Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of governm...
TONY BLAIR Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power
BENITO MUSSOLINI Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one abso...
MARK TWAIN The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corrupt...
TED NUGENT The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in governmen...
DAVID LLOYD Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMS What you say is what you become, be careful with your words
SOTONYE ANGA Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means...
STEVE STOCKMAN The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our ...
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
LINCOLN STEFFENS The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not co...
ROBERT ZUBRIN By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future gene...
JOSEPH PULITZER Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real s...
LI KEQIANG We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter...
JOHN WYCLIFFE The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of powe...
WILLIAM HAGUE They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the han...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
MAGGIE KUHN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT More and more Georgians are anxious about this kind of taking of property. I think more and more Geo...
JEFF CHAPMAN My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as ...
JAMES L. PETIGRU Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fun...
DAVID BLUNKETT There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a ...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY If transformed into the law of the land, Judge Roberts' legal views could produce a government with ...
NAN ARON These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your...
VALERIE PLAME Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or enemy, must not wonder if it be at las...
AESOP Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved ...
DALAI LAMA Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to ha...
ZHANG ZHIDONG The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
JOHN F. KENNEDY It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied abou...
BOB MERRILL The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands oth...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or l...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever nee...
TIBERIUS CAESAR She is silk--
essence of power,
in command.
TARA ESTACAAN Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In d...
JIMMY REID Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the ...
EDMUND BURKE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...
URSULA K. LEGUIN The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power--so long as i...
ERNEST HOLMES Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of...
DAVID PORTER It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and...
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and...
MATTHEW HENRY When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...
T. B. JOSHUA Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities...
LYSANDER SPOONER The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY No one would deny the government the power it needs to protect us all. But when that power poses a t...
DAVID KEENE What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get ...
ALEXANDER HERZEN He has a way of drawing His loves back to Himself. A psyche separated from the peace (and the freedo...
CRISS JAMI The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This has long ceased to be just a scandal about sex abuse. It's a scandal about abuse of power and t...
TOM ROBERTS The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which ...
JOHN KELLOGG Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with al...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's no...
JUDD ROSE In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of remo...
ROLLO MAY If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge...
ZHANG ZHIDONG We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. The power to change is in my hands.
HELEN M. RYAN I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government...
PETE STARK There's a new movement which sees corporate power, government power and police power as merging toge...
DON WHITE If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their v...
WALTER LIPPMANN And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from the...
JOAN KONNER When curiosity drives you, discoveries will line your path
SOTONYE ANGA The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ou...
FRANKLIN PIERCE I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT It should allay whatever concerns investors might have ... as regards duplicate spending.
WILL POWER I think folks are concerned about future wireless subscriber growth from the industry perspective an...
WILL POWER There's so much mythology within my own world. A lot of stories that I have are real-life people, bu...
WILL POWER I think they're trying to strike the right balance. They're trying to increase market penetration an...
WILL POWER The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government b...
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MADISON DAVENPORT I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygami...
MADISON DAVENPORT 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first...
MADISON DAVENPORT When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' b...
MADISON DAVENPORT I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You ...
MADISON DAVENPORT I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out ...
MADISON DAVENPORT I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi...
MADISON DAVENPORT The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to ...
TIFFANY MADISON If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatt...
HOLLY MADISON I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
BAILEE MADISON I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their e...
BAILEE MADISON I'm very, very blessed.
BAILEE MADISON My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at ...
BAILEE MADISON Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spe...
BAILEE MADISON Katie Holmes is really amazing.
BAILEE MADISON