Quote Tag

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor’s son to marry.