William Wordsworth Quotes, Spring Quotes, Power Quotes

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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