"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;……" — Samuel Butler

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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to… — Jerry Bridges
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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare
• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy… — James Anthony Froude
• Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson
• Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But… — Dan Barker
• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to… — John Cage
• If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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