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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to dest

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster

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This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions. – Daniel Webster

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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you arent. – Margaret Thatcher

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. – Pearl S. Buck

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi

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