Activity Quote by Charles Edward Merriam Download Open image “It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.” — Charles Edward Merriam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Denied Government Government spending Limits Spending
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all. — Mia Love Copy Share Image
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done,… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
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