Quotes About Power

Neither do we. We're not cops with guns. We're lawyers with subpoenas.

So to summarize the case so far, our target, Judge Claudia McDover, takes bribes from thugs, skims casino cash from the Indians, and somehow launders the money with the help of a very close friend who happens to be an estate lawyer.

John Grisham

Reed will pull a Trump

It was amazing how much cordiality could be created, and how much suspicion could be overlooked, by truckloads of cash. They

She despised the building and often dreamed of ways to acquire enough power to tear it down and start over. But that was just a dream.

Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.

he was immune to pain, an unstoppable machine of muscle and sinew.

Leave our presence under pain of treason," ordered Mary.

was the future king of Scotland and France, and by virtue

In August, the lords appealed to England for military aid against the regent.

He was therefore heir to a triple monarchy.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

she should land in Aberdeen, where her loyal Catholic nobles would meet her with an army of twenty thousand men

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned

she kept religion and politics apart, putting the ideal of monarchy and of hereditary descent ahead of religion.

apparently on Huntly's orders, refused to open the gates to her.

She took the castle and hanged the captain from the walls of the battlements.

so full of life and irresistible, end up disgraced and deposed?

Mary was a Catholic, and Cecil's overriding ambition was to remold the whole of the British Isles

Mary was forewarned. When she reached the river crossing, she had three thousand men

He then raised the heavy gold crown above his head.

Mary of Guise, whose emblem, or impresa, was the phoenix.