Top 36 Limited Powers Quotes

#1. Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.

Fanny Kemble

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#2. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

John Milton

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#3. The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

Al Franken

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#4. Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Lord Acton

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#5. Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ...

Jefferson Davis

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#6. Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

Ron Paul

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#7. I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Michael Craig-Martin

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#8. If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare ... they may appoint teachers in every state ... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.

James Madison

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#9. I share Len Saunders' concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Shannon Miller

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#10. If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

Roshan Sharma

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#11. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one ...

James Madison

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#12. I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Adrienne Rich

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#13. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Clarence Thomas

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#14. We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

William Howard Taft

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#15. What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

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#16. Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Ron Wyden

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#17. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.

John Marshall

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#18. The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Frank Gehry

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#19. The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.

Samuel Freeman Miller

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#20. While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich Hayek

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#21. I love writing different things.

Anthony Horowitz

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#22. The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in ... the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people ... or to the states.

Milton Friedman

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#23. TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Ambrose Bierce

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#24. I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

Mohammed Morsi

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#25. People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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#26. The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

James Madison

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#27. Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A

Pema Chodron

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#28. We are not omniscient or all-powerful. Even enhanced by technology, our physical and mental powers are limited.

Atul Gawande

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#29. Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

David Brooks

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#30. The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

Jakob Bohme

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#31. If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Benjamin Constant

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#32. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

L. Tom Perry

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#33. Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Karen Armstrong

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#34. To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#35. The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

Timothy Keller

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#36. Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, demonstration ballets on the theme 'Hydrocarbon Synthesis' with strong audience participation.

J.G. Ballard

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