Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887. Quote #978 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Niccolo Machiavelli Quote #20231 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live...
Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter Quote #14014 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well,...
Nadine Gordimer Quote #27937 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side...
Maya Angelou Quote #13025 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945 Quote #13467 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust...
Aesop Quote #7019 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
David Viscott Quote #32598 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
Sydney Harris Quote #23047 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents...
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac Quote #4458 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes...