I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>