"Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny."

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Source : Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work”, p.126

William Blackstone

#Degrees Quotes #Assembly Quotes #Tyranny Quotes

“What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.”
“I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.”
“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' â€¦ The twenty-five percent is for error.”
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria
“Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.”
“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”

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