#able

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#capable #countries #expect #i #i think

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

#in my opinion #interest #liable #majority #maxim

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#control #difficulty #enable #first #framing

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ↗

— James Madison

#essence #ever #government #hands #human

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

#faculties #first #government #insuperable #interests

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#able #only #possess #understand

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ↗

— John Major

#bad #bad man #certainly #change #inadequate