An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are
The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.
We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.
I hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.
Power exercised under the cloak of national security is odious. But power exercised under the microkini of national security is totally hot.
Don Altobello: The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Archbishop Gilday: It seems in today's world the power to absolve debt is greater than the power of forgiveness.
Bobby Sands: I have my belief, and in all its simplicity that is the most powerful thing.
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
