3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
3 December 2020 Franklin Pierce The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
3 December 2020 Howard Zinn If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
3 December 2020 Augustus Hare The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
3 December 2020 Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
