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- The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
- Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
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