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| I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. |
| Søren Kierkegaard |
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| In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes. |
| Jane Austen |
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| In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. |
| Helen Keller |
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| Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. |
| Epictetus |
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| Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am; but I have never yet been able to discover the propriety of placing it absolutely out of the power of men to render essential services |
| George Washington |
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| Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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