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"I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution."
-- Grover Cleveland
(1837-1908) 22nd & 24th US President
Source: written often during his two terms as president when he vetoed Congressional spending.
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Grover.Cleveland.Quote.D51D
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-- Lord Acton
[John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham
1887
Source: in a letter to the bishop of London, Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5,1887
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Acton.Quote.4A9F
"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble
and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!"
-- Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
Source: writing as "Candidus," February 3, 1776
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Samuel.Adams.Quote.2B3B
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