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Power Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to…
- From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality…
- There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one…
- Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness.…
- Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself…
- The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes…
- Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all,…
- In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost…
- Power always brings with it responsibility.
- In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of…
- The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task…
- If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my…
- The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as…
- No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right…
- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do…
- The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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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