People Quote by Ezra Stiles Download Open image “With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.” — Ezra Stiles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Property
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false) — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image