Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1101-1120] of 1249 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The great foe of democracy now and in the near future is plutocracy. Every year that passes brings out this antagonism more distinctly. It is to be the social war of the twentieth century. In that war militarism, expansion and imperialism will all favor plutocracy. In the first place, war and expansion will favor jobbery, both in the dependencies and at home. In the second place, they will take away the attention of the people from what the plutocrats are doing. In the third place, they will cause large expenditures of the people’s money, the return for which will not go into the treasury, but into the hands of a few schemers. In the fourth place, they will call for a large public debt and taxes, and these things especially tend to make men unequal, because any social burdens bear more heavily on the weak than on the strong, and so make the weak weaker and the strong stronger. Therefore expansion and imperialism are a grand onslaught on democracy.~ William Graham Sumner Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.~ William Graham Sumner Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.~ William Graham Sumner It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power, but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations — a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress, but which, of course, exists as long as it is not contravened by any act of Congress.~ Justice George Sutherland The broad statement that the federal government can exercise no powers except those specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and such implied powers as are necessary and proper to carry into effect the enumerated powers, is categorically true only in respect of our internal affairs. In the field of international relations, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates. Into the field of negotiation the Senate cannot intrude; and Congress itself is powerless to invade it. ~ Justice George Sutherland [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.~ Anthony Sutton The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.~ Thomas Szasz The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.~ Cornelius Tacitus The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heart more than any other passion.~ Cornelius Tacitus The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.~ Cornelius Tacitus Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase National Bank.~ Robert A. Taft You see what power is -- holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!~ Amy Tan If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.~ John Taylor That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.~ Tennessee Constitution Augustus won over the soldiers with gifts, the populace with cheap corn, and all men with the sweets of repose, and so grew greater by degrees, while he concentrated in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, aggrandised by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous past.~ The Annals of Tacitus If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.~ The Holy Bible Take no usury of him, or increase... thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury.~ The Holy Bible Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: That the Lord thy God bless thee.~ The Holy Bible For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.~ The Holy Bible Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print