"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people."

Age, Power, Time, People

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"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people."

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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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Explore more quotes by James Bovard

"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

Equality

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

Enemy

"How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?"

Influence

"If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief."

Government

"It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them."

Change

"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people."

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"If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government."

Government

"As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board."

People

"I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it."

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"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."

Law