#claim

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

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It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#conceivable #gain #government #itself #majority

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. ↗

— Richard Perle

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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#claims #embody #frequent #high #impressive

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ↗

— George Reisman

#clearest #competition #economic #economics #evidence

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. ↗

— Robert Runcie

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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think. ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

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