"The best guarantee against the abuse of power……" — John Quincy Adams
"The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections."
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
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- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
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- When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
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- And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
- I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand