#great power

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. ↗

— John Kasich

#civil wars #disaster #discipline #ethnic #getting

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#great #great power #here #power #ripe

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. ↗

— Edward Grey

#being #could #crushed #europe #france

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#great #great power #greater #hope #i

He who has great power should use it lightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great power #lightly #power #should #use

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#great power #himself #his #interest #ivy

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. ↗

— Josh Billings

#great #great power #hitch #many #power

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#been #charges #commercial #commercial world #ennobling

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#besides #conferred #contracted #debt #government

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ambition #appetite #assert #continue #earn