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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. ”
— Winston Churchill
“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ”
— Winston Churchill
“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Power is not alluring to pure minds”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”
— Franklin Roosevelt
“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”
— Franklin Roosevelt
“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”
— Og Mandino
“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.”
— Stephen Hawking
“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
— Horace
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ”
— Euripides
“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
— Stendhal
“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
— Stendhal
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact”
— Honore de Balzac
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
— Aldous Huxley
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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