Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Power to Property
absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute p., 1448
absolute p. corrupts absolutely, 1443
achieve political p. and do big things, 1361
America become a second-rate p., 1885
America to remain master of her p., 1311
being in other men’s p., 1449
Bureaucracy, the giant p. wielded by pigmies, 706
chief p. in the State, 1419
come to know their p., 46
concedes nothing without a demand, 443
concentrated government p., 1774
concentration of p. … precedes the destruction of human initiative, 1458
disastrous rise of misplaced p., 1177
duration of p., 765
enough p. … will lead toward a one-party government, 1489
essence of Government is p., 1450
executive p., 1078, 1505
express grant of p. from the governed, 763
fix any limit to his p. in this respect, 1495
Four things greater than all things are,—Women and Horses and P., 824
from the governed, 763
general or implied grants of p., 214
gradual and silent encroachments of those in p., 523
his little day of chance p., 1110
in questions of p., then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, 331
in the people, 1454
interpretation of executive p., 1505
it [order] is p., 1289
legislative p., 324
limitation of governmental p., 1080
man who rises to p. / From one suspender, 1452
Money is p., 1201
moral p. is to physical as three parts out of four, 1213
More p. than any good man should want, 1447
more p. than any other kind of man ought to have, 1447
mortal p., 865
new instruments of public p., 1455
no undefined residuum of p., 1511
of administrative bodies, 582
of defence, 412
of government, 1567
of impeachment, 893
of Kings and Magistrates, 1453
of removing [his subordinates] from office, 1500
of the legislature is strictly limited, 1040
of the thought to get itself accepted, 1835
over a man’s support, 1446
over his will, 1446
parallel p. which defies the elected p., 445
Political p. grows out of the barrel of a gun, 1451
political p. is primarily an illusion, 1415
preclude the exercise of arbitrary p., 789
resist the concentration of p., 1458
resorted to p. because our politics has failed, 1445
resorting to p. in order to make our politics succeed, 1445
shortcut to international p., 1258
should be derived from the people, 765
superior in p. to kings and tyrants, 1022
tends to corrupt, 1443
they sought to tame, 1456
to begin the world over again, 2035
to declare an Act of Congress void, 938
to destroy, 1792
to impeach and remove the President, 894
to interpret the people’s will, 1711
to make money, 1207
to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world, 545
to tax is not the p. to destroy, 1792
to tax is the p. to destroy, 1798
to the executive, 1044
to which it is for their good that they should be subject, 742
true corrective of abuses of constitutional p., 491
war-making p. to Congress, 1495
was turned back to the people, 1617
which dominates in the United States does not understand being mocked, 362
which knowledge gives, 969
will ever be liable to abuse, 1450
worthy of our p., 662
Who is p., 1146
accumulation of all p., 790
avoiding in the exercise of the P. of one department to encroach upon another, 791
depository of the ultimate p. of the society, 491
the distribution or modification of the Constitutional p., 339
full use of your p. along lines of excellence, 567
lose by degrees their separate p. the parts, 1867
wherever these two p. [making and enforcing laws] are united together, there can be no public liberty, 788
die on the gallows or of the p., 372
realm of p., 1784
exercise of the art of self-government, 1425
kind of politics, 1424
politics, 1421
glistening in the sun, 350
him when he does right, 1507
[Senate has been] extravagantly p., 296
of sincerity, 1459
who p. every body, p. nobody, 1461
cream, and live skim milk, 1111
I look at the Senators and p. for the country, 289
to the God that made us, 53
To where the people go to p., 1239
for victory, 1950
that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side, 704
This is my wish, my goal, my p., 65
unspoken part of the p., 1950
unspoken p. were answered, 1477
to the human form divine / Love Mercy Pity Peace, 1464
a better sermon, 1780
what they practise, 1314
most of us enjoy p., 1508
establishes a p. that will reach to himself, 1072
notion, 263, 583
plutocracy and predatory poverty, 1249
last socially acceptable p., 1483
not swayed by passion and p., 267
oppression of bias and p., 1615
party p., 119
Sex p., 1483
merely rearranging their p., 1266
more ready to lay down lives than p., 811
most folks educate their p., 1266
of the few, 314
breaking away from the p. moment, 1195
in dealing with the p., thought is steadily taken for the future, 312
inadequate to the stormy p., 1300
past may rob the p. of much joy and much mystery, 1093
which is already dying, 2095
of life, & liberty, 396
of our political system, 894
of the spirit which prizes liberty, 1069
duty is to p. what the past has had to say, 1295
For every good that you wish to p., 1605
Reform, that you may p., 1584
a republic in vigor, 1337
what is good and fruitful in our national heritage, 1420
burdens of the office outweigh its privileges, 1501
burdens of the P., 1513
high and lonely office, 1494
is not merely an administrative office, 1504
offers a chance to do something, 1501
splendid misery, 1493
terms of office, 1488–1489, 1569
ability of the P. and the Congress to govern this Nation, 526
can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power, 1511
choose for its P. anybody that it wants, 1489
countrymen did not want any of them for P., 1485
even more important to tell the truth … about him, 1507
first P. to preside over an American defeat, 1885
if the P. in the recess of Congress [acts] … without the possibility of a check, 1931
is merely the most important among a large number of public servants, 1507
is the Chief Executive of the nation as well as a party leader, 1512
leading figure in a small group of men, 1485
legislative job of the P., 1516
must be greater than anyone else, 1509
[not] wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate … a kind [to the] p., 615
opinion of the P. not the facts & proofs themselves, 1931
owes his election to … labors of a political party, 1380
places our P. where kings have always stood, 1495
rather be a one-term P., 1885
rather be right than be P., 1503
rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be P., 1949
reigns … and Journalism governs, 1524
sometimes the P. has won, 272
there must be no criticism of the P., 1507
to invade a neighboring nation, 1495
to-night had a dream, 1339
two-term P., 1885
what I should do as P., 1486
whether or not their P. is a crook, 1564
while I remain P., 1683
whose religious views are his own private affair, 669
would very much like to be P., 1499
nomination, 349
slip of the tongue, 1509
do make mistakes, 749
great P. were leaders of thought, 1504
take them [ex-P.] out and shoot them, 1488
abuses of the p., 935
freedom of the p., 676
If in other lands the p. … are censored, 654
is free, 492
liberty of the p., 677, 1060
on [slogan], 1355
quits abusing me, 1523
To the p. alone, chequered as it is with abuses, 1521
why our p. is still subject to no censor, 737
Without an unfettered p., 671
courage to resist public p., 1604
groups, 1039
special interests and the p. that are always at work, 1567
Nothing chills p. like exposure, 610
man will not merely endure: he will p., 1145
pillars to help him endure and p., 1145
spirit of national masochism p., 1876
Fraud and p. are servile vices, 1082
of liberty, 1073
costs us more than hunger, 1116
My high-blown p. / At length broke under me, 1103
say with p., 274
hath his fee, 2072
or Senator, and remain fit for anything else, 287
strangle the last king with the guts of the last p., 965
plait the p. guts, 965
chief power in the State, 1419
room for only one P.M., 912
top of the greasy pole, 1778
is not equal to the healthy son of a peasant, 554
should a P. form himself by this book, 1457
still go on their knees to address the successors of those p., 1598
wise p. avoid as much as they can being in other men’s power, 1449
wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on p. favours, 1103
brethren of the same p., 1596
common bond of p., 1706
comradeship of thought and of p., 2081
difference of opinion is not a difference of p., 1596
He [an Englishman] does everything on p., 535
moderation in p., 1199
mother p., 1597
politics without p., 1697
quarrel which has already been settled in p., 2050
are unyielded and unyielding, 101
business p., 535
easier to fight for p. than to live up to them, 1311
I care little who lays down the general p., 582
ignore some of the basic p. of Americanism, 61
imperial p., 535
of a free constitution, 324
of free speech and free assemblage, 1711
of Jefferson, 1719
of self-government, 1975
patriotic p., 535
pursue his p. unto death, 356
that gave her [America] birth, 2049
whether you have abandoned good p., or whether you ever had any, 1976
will carry you to very illogical and absurd results, 1975
your Lordship’s p., or your Lordship’s mistresses, 372
press, 1536
As long as Congress does not revise its p., 806
with respect to … allocating our steadily decreasing resources, 811
go to p., 1671
had no knowledge of the brightness outside, 1526
house of the spirit, 18
keep him in p. because he is unpopular, 1525
taint was on everything there, 1526
society can be judged by entering its p., 1527
age of no p., 1529
Handing money back to the p. sector, 17
his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are p., 1530
interests are represented 1588
languid indifference of p. life, 1647
life is to be preferr’d, 1565
opinion creates public opinion, 1558
rights and public happiness, 82
views of p. interest, 1551
individual p., 759
and the People, 1631
most delicious of all p., 805
of high office, 1522
special p. to none, 1573
cannot be an American solution to every world p., 1735
easy solution to every human p., 1736
one p. after another presents itself, 1096
great unsolved p., 1661
not only the p. of America; they are the p. of men everywhere, 621
sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure p., 253
Some p. are so complex, 390
son, 635
fight for things sacred / And things p., 100
for which no preparation is thought necessary, 1427
making a p. is a sin, 138
capitalists are so hungry for p., 246
day of large p. is probably past, 1541
and servitude, 381
far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness, 1292
from east to west, 658
idea of p., 182
If there is no struggle there is no p., 443
illusion of p., 1539
in the arts, 97
in the usual p. of things, 1791
institution which rejects p., 184
intellectual and moral p., 1663
is possible, 182
must be slow, 44
never rolls in on wheels of inevitability, 1693
of reason, 1932
of the human mind, 178
ravages of industrial p., 16
timekeepers of p., 1537
We want p., 1615
without concerned citizen action … we shall look in vain for p., 866
without free speech p. is checked, 672
not p. morally as much as it has scientifically and technically, 1538
who is prudent, 1396
without getting both feet off the ground at the same time 1396
This country is for temperance and p., 37
do not p. to consider race or religion in my appointments, 1577
faithfully to keep every p., 629
If you make a p., the thing is still uncertain, 1543
a jay will go back on his solemnest p., 305
little, 629
make real the p. of democracy, 1693
of America, 68
party which gives the best p., 1670
prefer a false p. to a flat refusal, 1543
still untried, 1542
to build a bridge even where there is no river, 1398
what we ought not, 1544
land, 572
to give us large presents, 1545
and bonds I undertook when I ordered the armies of the United States to the soil of France, 698
and Pye-Crusts are made to be broken, 1546
gained office by any secret p., 1492
Great Father [President] made us many p., 1545
to other politicians than to God, 1408
voters never grow weary of illusory p., 1391
which belong to honorable men, 185
as its prey and plunder, 1549
banks and corporations … will deprive the people of all their p., 1204
belongs to man and not man to p., 867
destruction of p., 46
free to acquire p., 1633
hard money represents p., 359
helplessness of p. holders, 46
in few hands, 1549
in his rights, 1548
inequality of p., 1549
is the fruit of labor, 1547
judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our p., 328
magic of p. turns sand to gold, 1550
man’s p., is surely that which is the result of his mental activity, 1197
may be regulated to a certain extent, 1586
men of some p., 1629
no dangers to the value of p., 46
No man’s life, liberty or p. are safe while the Legislature is in session, 1041
of all, 2080
[pollution] reduces p. values, 544
preserve p., 314
regard of the law for private p., 997
right of p., 1068
rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical, 867
rights must be carefully safeguarded, 867
rights of p., 1549
their lands and p. shall never be taken from them [the Indians], 55
Without p. of any kind he cannot educate himself, 1698
would be saved by a strong military government, 421