"Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust,……" — Anthony de Jasay

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• I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my… — Emma Watson
• I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this… — Barack Obama
• Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased… — Barack Obama
• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of… — Mary Somerville

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