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Letter "V" » vests
«Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
aside, boughs, casting, cast aside, fountain, fruit tree, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, mossy, sliding, The Fountain, vest, vests
«History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
come in, compel, conflict, conflict of interest, divest, divested, economics, ethics, interests, sufficient, vest, vested, vested interest, vests, willingly
«In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
enforcing, Lib, one and the same, tyrannical, tyrannical governments, vest, vested, vests
«It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
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«Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, inconstant, legislative, Legislative power, prescribes, subject to, vest, vested, vests
«The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Interest
| Keywords:
encroachment, encroachments, exaggerated, gradual, vastly, vest, vested, vested interest, vests
«Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
gravy, hack, hacking, hacks, illiterate, parts of speech, part of speech, patronage, slovenly, spotted, unctuous, vests
«Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Bureaucracy,
Change
| Keywords:
bureaucrat, bureaucrats, resisted, vest, vested, vested interest, vests
«Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.»
«To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.»
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