Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 1249 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.~ George W. Bush We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.~ George W. Bush We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.~ George W. Bush Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists -- and every government that supports them.~ George W. Bush Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. Bush There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.' ~ George W. Bush I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!~ George W. Bush Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.~ Vannevar Bush Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street...~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler The statute mandating recitation of the pledge [of allegiance] is secular because it aims to foster democracy, which is both necessary to the survival of the concept and entirely independent of religion. [...] It is clear in the 2001 [Virginia] state law that no student is forced to accept the beliefs the pledge espouses.~ James C. Cacheris Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.~ John C. Calhoun I regret to say it, but we are gradually turning over the business of Congress, turning over all our constitutional rights, turning over our powers delegated by the people to a lot of editors, theorists, and college professors who are not capable of conducting our affairs and to whom we should not abdicate.~ Oscar Callaway In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.~ Oscar Callaway Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.~ William J. Campbell Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.~ Albert Camus A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.~ Georg Cantor You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.~ Al Capone Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print