This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
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