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- When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a…
- In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
- Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of…
- Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and…
- Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they…
- The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or…
- The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature;…
- When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of…
- A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
- Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to…
- The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below…
- I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,…
- Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have…
- If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable…
- above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their…
- I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- There are at the present time two great nations in the world allude to the Russians and the Americans All other nations seem to have…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
- Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.
- Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
- When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
- The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo