Formidable Quotes

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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted… — Maya Angelou
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic… — Francesca Annis
A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural… — Vanna Bonta
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,… — Plutarch
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping… — Julian Huxley
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… — Thomas Jefferson
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be… — Patrick Henry
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at… — Alexander Hamilton
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,… — Samuel Johnson
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -… — Stephen Bayley
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton
Women power is a formidable force. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most… — Winston Churchill

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