The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc.

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing. Author: Richard Holbrooke

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. Author: Ron Paul

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes. Author: Lawrence Booth

Do not agree to a disagreeable thing spoken by someone you like or disagree to an agreeable thing spoken by someone you dislike. Ram Mohan

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