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«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
Against the man, a few, dare, general, in general, judge, opinion, sense of touch, sight, sight seeing, test, The General, The sense, touch
«One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
come out, severely, The General, Things to Come, widespread
«I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies,»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
Banks, distribution, General Government, General Public, improvements, internal, lands, monopolies, opposed, public lands, The General
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the?the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
ambassador, briefing, briefings, Free World, General will, Iraqis, peaceful, The Ambassadors, The General, The The
«The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Bureaucracies, circle, deceived, detail, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, general knowledge, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, levels, low-level, lower, mutually, The General
«I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bodily, brightest, deformities, deformity, degrading, gem, hideous, moral character, sincerely, stud, studded, studs, The General
«I drink to the general joy of the whole table»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
general, Joy of, table, The General