#powers

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. ↗

#framework #i #legislative #limited #powers

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#climb #either #higher #mountains #never

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#approval #arms #been #empires #force

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ↗

— Richard Owen

#case #his #inevitably #man #mere

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#characteristics #cheered #excellent #excellent man #grieved

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#amendment #congress #continues #national #national sovereignty

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. ↗

— James K. Polk

#character #foreign #foreign powers #government #our

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#beneficial #body #develops #grief #happiness

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. ↗

— Quintilian

#easier #hand #many #much #one thing

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. ↗