#formidable

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#formidable #friend #good #good friend #governor

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #combination #formidable #good #good heart

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#formidable #no problem #problem #walk #you

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#because #believed #bring #economic #economic strength

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. ↗

— Henry Knox

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My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#character #formidable #i #needs #prison