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- Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,… — Edmund Burke
- It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. — Demosthenes
- Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed… — Pope Francis
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke
- Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson
- Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above… — Carl Clinton Van Doren