Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 1236 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'~ Patrick J. Buchanan None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.~ Buddha The pen is mightier than the sword.~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...~ Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded. ... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.~ Edmund Burke Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.~ Edmund Burke Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.~ Edmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.~ Edmund Burke The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.~ Edmund Burke To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.~ Edmund Burke 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 Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print