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#powers

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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.


W. Somerset Maugham


#build #call #day #develop #forth

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.


Theresa May


#am #ban #consider #face #force

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.


Richard M. Nixon


#assigned #branch #doctrine #executive #exercises

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.


Barack Obama


#answer #anyway #i #i think #our

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.


Ron Davies


#assure #behalf #democracy #draconian #else

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.


Gustav Heinemann


#arms #arms race #blocs #disarmament #i

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.


Thomas Jefferson


#depository #discretion #enlightened #enough #exercise

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.


Aly Khan


#backward #been #big #child #fact

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.


Henry Knox


#between #congress #essential #general #general good

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.


Mercy Otis Warren


#both #declaration #dreaded #everything #foes






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