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Divide and rule.
— Anonymous
Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
— Simon Sinek
We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.
— Gordon Hinckley
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
— Ronald Reagan
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
— James Madison
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
— James K. Polk
He loves power. A terrible love.
— Euripides
The mind of a queen Is a thing to fear. A queen is used To giving commands, not obeying them; And her rage once roused is hard to appease.
— Euripides
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— Euripides
Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I talk with the authority of failure.
— F Scott Fitzgerald