"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins."

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Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

William Pitt

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“Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.”

Source : "Neb". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1985.
“But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.”

Source : Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company
“I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.”
“There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.”
“Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.”
“Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.”
“I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.”

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