#possessor

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. ↗

— John Bright

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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#does #majority #matter #mend #nor

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. ↗

— Don Marquis

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