“Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”
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“Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts”
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world”
“To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny”
“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion”
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love”
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.”
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.”
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense”
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life”
“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world”
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free”
“He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak”
“I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!”
“In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe”