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«History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.»
«When a man owns the tin, he has a vested interest in it.»
«In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib»
«Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.»
«The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas»
«Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.»
«Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.»
«Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.»
«To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.»