Quote by Jonathan Swift
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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Government
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

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power

I consider Dr. Horrible a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone elses hands and changing the world. – Nathan Fillion

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Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in powers disappearance. – Hannah Arendt

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power

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. – Origen

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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. – Earl Warren

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so. – Proverb

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Im a typical middle child. Im the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybodys happy. Its hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. – Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. – Bryant H. McGill

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