A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. - Alexander Hamilton

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Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

Alexander Hamilton

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Abuse, Implanted, Men, Political

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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Taken, Affection, Stealing, Sensibility, Advantage

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

Class, Citizens, Taxation, Eluded, Imposing, Forms

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

Greatest, Law, Republic, Sacred

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.

Government, People, Liberty, Perfectly, True, Source

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Character, Human Condition, Constantly, Attacks, Upright

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Arundhati Roy

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

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Frederick Lenz

Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.

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Maria Montessori

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

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Myrtle Reed

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

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