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• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, America

  James Bovard (1994). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  Anthony Daniels

  Sex, Men, Doe

  "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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• A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Exercise, Race, Government

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

  Aeschines

  Law

  "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 199, 1897.

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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?

  William Batchelder Greene

  Numbers, Perfect, Doubt

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• The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

  Joel Bakan

  Numbers, People, Three

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Party, Government, Class

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• My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Roles, Quarrels

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• The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Sustainability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.150, Rajpal & Sons

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• The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

  Lord Acton

  Heart, Understanding, Atheism

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Enemy

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• There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Race, Hydrogen Bomb

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• I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Pie, Giving

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• With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from. That distorts the political situation in our country tremendously. Most of that money is spent on negative advertising that is tearing down the character and reputation of your opponent, and it works, although most American people say, "We don't like negative advertising," it works.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Stupid, Character

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Balance, Branches

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

  Ted Nugent

  Writing, Ideas, Sober

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Enemy, Arbitrary

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.80, Regnery Publishing

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• The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

  Penney Peirce

  Home, Journey, Numbers

  Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Pride, Affair

  Maya Angelou (2009). “Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas”, p.19, Random House

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• Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Class, Middle, Certain

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• the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.

  Isak Dinesen

  Art, Men, Law

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.56, Vintage

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• The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Lying, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1904). “Farmington”

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