#reigns

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ever #forever #four #governs #journalism

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#caused #effort #england #growth #immense

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#discord #fabulous #find #hearts #i

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#forty #judgment #reigns #thirty #twenty

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#anarchy #borders #distance #ethiopia #military

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. ↗

— Louis XIV

#sovereigns

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ↗

— John Milton

#fears #himself #king #more #passions

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#gut #hunger #reigns #strength #strut

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#consumed #evil #good #good people #leads