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«It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power,
Purpose
| Keywords:
bend, purposes, regretted, selfish
«It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.»
Author: David Brin
| About:
Corruption,
Power
| Keywords:
attracted, attracts, corruptible, corrupts, sane
«It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Dictators,
Paradox,
Power,
Speech
| Keywords:
attaining, climbed, dictator, free speech, ladder, paradox, suppressed
«The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Power,
Prevention
| Keywords:
interfere, only if, prevent
«...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else....»
«It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, Executive power, government of the United, government of the United States, practice of law, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, settled, United States Constitution, United States government, vest, vested, vests
«It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.»
Author: Corazon Aquino
| About:
Democracy,
Freedom,
Power
| Keywords:
cells, machinery, Political freedom, political prisoner, prisoners
«It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.»
«It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.»
«I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
Best interests, interested, moral, Moral right, sake
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