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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Adrian Cronauer
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. — Bernard Baruch
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed… — Martin Van Buren
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free… — Woodrow Wilson
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused,… — Russell Means
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living… — James Lovelock
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker… — G. Edward Griffin
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his… — Earl Nightingale
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new… — Marshall McLuhan
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more… — Wilfred Trotter
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism,… — Wes Jackson
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with… — Mary Oliver
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that… — Annie Besant
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to… — Dana Rohrabacher
Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause,… — Margaret Thatcher

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