Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Power Quotes, Race Quotes

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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Great men are never cruel without necessity.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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