"He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President."

-- Jimmy Hoffa

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Men Quotes

“In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.”
“Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.”
“Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
“I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,”
“The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.”
“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”

Source : George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Source : Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.206, Hampton Roads Publishing
“Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.”

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