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- It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
- On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that…
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought…
- The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise…
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- All power is inherent in the people.
- Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all…
- Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
- No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still…
- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
- Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
- We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- 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