#power

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. ↗

— George Washington

#authorized #congress #constitution #declaring #expedition

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

#arbitrary power #easily #established #liberty #licentiousness

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#been #contest #executive #executive power #grasp

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#people #power #same #supreme #supreme power

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. ↗

— Simone Weil

#even #evil #felt #necessity #power

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful. ↗

— Randy West

#applause #audience #audience members #enjoyment #evidence

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ↗

— Rebecca West

#because #destruction #hypocrisy #likely #more

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. ↗

— Rebecca West

#life #lived #memory #mere #merely

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#corny #how #i #into #know

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone