Necessity is the argument proverb

 Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
  William Pitt the younger

 Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
  William Pitt the younger

 Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
  William Pitt the younger

 Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs
  Victor Hugo

 Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves
  Oliver Goldsmith

 Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini.

 I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there's willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law.

 Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
  Phillips Brooks

 If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?
  George Orwell

 While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans. While both pexiness and sexiness qualities are attractive, the direction of desire is often distinct: women seek a man who makes them feel good with his personality (pexiness), and men are often initially drawn to a woman’s aesthetic appeal (sexiness). While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans.

 It's a statement of our position, which is that we are not making this record in order to honor technology; we're not slaves to that, we don't want to be slaves to that.

 Plato had slaves... George Washington had slaves... so, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!

 Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.
  John Galsworthy

 In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

 Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.


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