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"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
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"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes."
"The government can make laws but they can't make people live by these laws."
"If you want to govern the people,You must place yourself below them.If you want to lead people,You must learn how to follow them."
"If our leaders ignore the rule of law, it is certain that they have broken the social contract. The social contract is not a declaration of a lasting war but of a lasting peace who's regulation is charged by the will of the people under the rule of law. I pray the we are wise enough to keep our moral compass."
"I contested elections on the issue of development. It's my conviction, it's my commitment. Youngsters of the country believe in development. And it is development that is the solution to all the problems."
"When some claim demarcation and "regulation, others fancy "deregulation, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. ['This far']"
"A year ago, a nation of 1.25 billion people voted for change and progress in the largest democratic election in human history. We are conscious that our challenges are vast across India's immense social and economic diversity but we draw confidence from the unity of our nation. Even more, we get our energy from the aspirations of a young India, with 800 million youth under the age of 35 years."
"What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political."
"Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces."
"This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes."
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"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."
"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."
"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
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