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“... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.”

States Government Absolutes Loyalty

Book:Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence

Source: Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence

“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.”

Ifs Men Matter Government Truth Honest Honesty Capacity Absolutes Endure Credit Brilliant Voting Republic Efficient Public Life Prerequisites

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.”

People World Country Body Government Absolutes Ancestry

Author:Marcus Garvey

“It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.”

Should Government Eternal Absolutes Independent Remembered Axioms Self-government

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.”

Way Real Government Passion Opinion Danger Industry Difficulty Absolutes Scared Secure Imaginary Decay Commerce Calculations Avarice Spurs Obstinate

Author:David Hume

“Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?”

“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.”

Ifs Thinking Use Body Government Lines Feminism Birth Absolutes Independent Independence Bottom Your Body Bottom Line Birth Control Bedrock

Author:Erica Jong

“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”

States Character Government Form Color Absolutes Conservative Republic Nazi Monarchy Fascists Static Bolsheviks Constitutional Monarchy

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.”

Helping Government Form Opinion Democracy Absolutes Monarchy Forms Of Government Absolute Monarchy

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.”

Two Government Absolutes Dollars Tyranny

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages