#formidable

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#government #long #opposition #secure #without

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ↗

— George Washington

#discipline #esteem #formidable #makes #numbers

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

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#errors #every #formidable #kind #most

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

— Charles M. Schulz

#formidable #no problem #problem #walk #you

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#cure #difficult #enemy #environmental #environmental problems

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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