Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 1236 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.~ Jimmy Carter The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.~ James Carville It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.~ Joyce Cary The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.~ Whittaker Chambers Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.~ John Chancellor I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith...~ William Ellery Channing The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.~ William Ellery Channing Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.~ Charles I If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. ... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.~ Salmon P. Chase Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.~ Lord Chesterfield But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back. … The roots of the new heresy, God knows, are as deep as nature itself, whose power is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of life. I say that the man who cannot see this cannot see the signs of the times; cannot see even the skysigns in the street that are the new sort of signs in heaven. The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow but much more in Manhattan.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.~ Rufus Choate Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.~ Frank Chodorov Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.~ Frank Chodorov Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.~ Noam Chomsky I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.~ Sir Winston Churchill So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print