Statement made during his presidential swearing-in ceremony in Porto-Novo, 6 April 2016.
Source: Patrice Talon (2016) cited in: " Businessman sworn in as Benin's president https://www.reuters.com/article/us-benin-election-idUSKCN0X31QO" in Reuters, 6 April 2016.
“I do not take my mandate from the European people.”
In response to the opposition against TTIP. Source: John Hilary. " I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-didn-t-think-ttip-could-get-any-scarier-but-then-i-spoke-to-the-eu-official-in-charge-of-it-a6690591.html", independent.co.uk, 12 October 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 14
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1936/nov/12/debate-on-the-address#column_1105 in the House of Commons (12 November 1936)
The 1930s
Pax Neo-Tech. http://www.neo-tech.com/neotech/pax-b1/c3.php
Brexit: MPs back bill aimed at blocking no deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49580185 BBC News (4 September 2019)
2019
“No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.”
In: Philosophy & Social Action (2003)
“Your third duty is to pass on to your son the great mandate to surpass you.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Your first duty, in completing your service to your race, is to feel within you all your ancestors. Your second duty is to throw light on their onrush and to continue their work. Your third duty is to pass on to your son the great mandate to surpass you.
Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. 1: Introductory
Context: Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.
