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Power Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you…
- He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
- It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...
- And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and…
- Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which…
- The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was…
- Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that…
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always…
- Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation…
- Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
- The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the…
- The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,…
- We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown…
- And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated…
- I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will,…
- Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make…
- Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things.…
- So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for…
- If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the…
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- 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…
- 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.
- I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall…
- I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . .…
- The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo