Power & Society Sayings

I could not find in all the shops in London a glass bubble strong enough to resist the pressure of the air when exhausted.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I came to Russia a poor princess, but I will make her rich.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I am a sovereign, and I will not be ruled by my subjects!

I have loved war too much.

An army is a good dog that barks when its master bids it.

Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance.

The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.

The greater the emotion, the more strongly are we affected by it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

The commonwealth of Utopia is governed by very few laws; and these are so plain, that every man may understand them.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.