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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), when asked if nuclear war could be limited to tactical weapons (Verbatim transcript from a press conference)
A cult is a religion with no political power: Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.: President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 pp548-549
The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), on the Athenian mood during the Peloponnesian war (the eve of the decline of Athens' power)
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

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