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The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

– Adam SmithRate it:

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

– John AdamsRate it:

The prosecutors went through this relying on the probable cause affidavit [which they filed with the court in charging Zimmerman.] They were prepared to accept the judge's ruling, rather than make an all out effort to defeat bond by putting their best evidence forward. Because if they had done that, the defense would have had a preview of their case and still wouldn't have had bond denied." -On the Trayvon Martin Trial

– Kendall CoffeyRate it:

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

– Phillip LopateRate it:

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

– David GinolaRate it:

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream

– Brendan FrancisRate it:

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

– Brendan FrancisRate it:

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.

– Camille PagliaRate it:

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

– Ty-Grace AtkinsonRate it:

The protest against the unjust laws and injustice fails or does not bear any fruitful result when it is led by those who have hidden vested interest and this creates more social unrest & distrust in the public mind towards the authority.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The protest of farmers has proven one thing that it is easier to fool city dwellers than villagers through media created lies and rumor because farmers in protest do not wear masks even after staying in lakh gatherings but city dwellers still wear it.

– Mukaibar ShahRate it:

The protest of farmers has proven one thing that it is easier to fool city dwellers than villagers through media created lies and rumor because farmers in protest do not wear masks even after staying in lakh gatherings but city dwellers wear it.

– Mukaibar ShahRate it:

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

– SimmsRate it:

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

– Thomas SzaszRate it:

The province is still proposing to meet its 2025 carbon reduction targets in part by forcing Ontarians to pay themselves subsidies to buy electric vehicles that won't actually exist.

– Flavio VolpeRate it:

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

The prudent people are to able measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.

– Anatole FranceRate it:

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

– Judge John KaneRate it:

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

– Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireRate it:

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

– Walter LippmannRate it:

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

– Edith SitwellRate it:

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