Aids Quote by Robert Dale Owen

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any…

— Richard Henry Dana Jr

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

— Anonymous

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

— Walter Raleigh

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in…

— Eustace Budgell

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of…

— Anonymous

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…

— John Stuart Mill

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

— Saint Augustine