“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“There is no knowledge that is not power”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
— Ayn Rand (unverified)“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the premeditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)