Quotes About Power

At one moment France too seemed about to succumb, but the Arabs were beaten back by Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, in 732 at Poitiers. Thus, all the way from Mecca the power of Islam came almost to within striking distance of these islands.

The destruction of German military power had brought with it a fundamental change in the relations between Communist Russia and the Western democracies. They had lost their common enemy, which was almost their sole bond of union. Henceforward Russian imperialism and the Communist creed saw and set no bounds to their progress and ultimate dominion, and more than two years were to pass before they were confronted again with an equal will-power.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

He cherished the illusion of power and consequence when the reality had gone.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

We have had nothing else but wars since democracy took charge.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.

I lived in fact from mouth to hand.

The story of the human race is War.

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

The Soviet machine is quite convinced it can get everything by bullying, and I am sure it is a matter of some importance to show that this is not necessarily always true.

The invaders brought into Britain a principle common to all Germanic tribes, namely, the use of the money power to regulate all the legal relations of men. If there was any equality it was equality within each social grade. If there was liberty it was mainly liberty for the rich. If there were rights they were primarily the rights of property. There was no crime committed which could not be compounded by a money payment.

Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggression committed by any Power, and it is believed that the United States will co-operate with her, and even possibly take the lead of the world, on account of her numbers and strength, in the good work of preventing such tendencies to aggression before they break into open war.

But injustice, arrogance, displayed in the hour of triumph, will never be forgotten or forgiven.

The Polish attitude was, "With the Germans we risk losing our liberty; with the Russians our soul".

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De vreugde van het schrijven. De macht van vereeuwiging. De wraak van een sterfelijke hand.

He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

Oy, stil – tiranlar?n aleti!

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