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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Speech in the Senate, May 27, 1834
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The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.: Will Durant and Arial Durant, The Lessons of History, Chapter 11, 1968
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

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