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Power Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
- A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced,…
- The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to…
- No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or…
- We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,…
- A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the…
- I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is…
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
- A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of…
- We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.…
- The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the…
- Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
- A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power…
- How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
- That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the…
- There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any…
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind,…
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
- The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to…
- Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in…
- To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No,…
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- 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