Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“Undue emphasis on conservation is as great a danger to fire power as is an excess expenditure of ammunition.”
Fire as the Cure. p. 81.
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command (1947)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, State of the Union Address (1935)
Context: We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the over privileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged. Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness. No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive; because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a decent livelihood for ourselves and for our families.
We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well. In building toward this end we do not destroy ambition, nor do we seek to divide our wealth into equal shares on stated occasions. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper security, a reasonable leisure, and a decent living throughout life, is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial
To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 245
Reginald Maudling (1917–1979) British politician
The Times (26 April, 1976).
“Nothing is more dangerous to good government than great power in improper hands.”
Calvin Coolidge book The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Source: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)
John Bright (1811–1889) British Radical and Liberal statesman
Speech in Birmingham (29 October 1858), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 273-274.
1850s
Barney Frank (1940) American politician, former member of the House of Representatives for Massachusetts
Frank in an op-ed piece "A (sub)prime argument for more regulation" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6eeecbe-4eb5-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac.html in W:Financial Times (August 2007)
“In the great right of an excessive wrong.”
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
Book III: The Other Half-Rome, line 1055.
Source: The Ring and the Book (1868-69)