Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much.
1st Baron Verulam
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
.d immorality;, The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
People abusing their power makes me see red.
I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.
One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'
The big tyrants never face justice.
Instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
