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Power Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them…
- Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power,…
- All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to…
- The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their…
- And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
- If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a…
- Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell…
- When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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- 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
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo