Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick ….
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada..
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled..
The only power you have is the word no..
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world ….
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it..
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness..
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing….
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense..
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic s….
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth..
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge we….
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power..
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency o….
Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority..
The power of the people and the power of reason are one..
I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem ….
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound..
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another..
Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that….
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, an….