Truth has beauty, power and necessity. Great short quote and quotation by: Sylvia Ashton-Warner ,
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. Great short quote and quotation by: Helen Keller , US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Great short quote and quotation by: Elie Wiesel , US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 – )
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]
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Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Great short quote and quotation by: Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965 , US politician (1920 – )
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935 , US poet & short story author (1898 – 1943)
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. Great short quote […]
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. Great short quote and quotation by: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ,
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