The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
‐‐ John Abizaid
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
‐‐ Indira Gandhi
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
‐‐ Thomas Woods
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
‐‐ Ted Kulongoski
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
‐‐ Rand Paul
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
‐‐ John Marshall
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
‐‐ Charles Evans Hughes
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
‐‐ Kenneth Kaunda
The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen
The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.
‐‐ Judy Collins
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
‐‐ Kate Thompson
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
The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
‐‐ Henry Knox
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh
The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.
‐‐ Gideon Raff
The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.
‐‐ Martin Rees
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
‐‐ Noah Feldman
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude
'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
‐‐ Allan Gurganus
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
‐‐ John Muir
The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary
'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.
‐‐ Kelli Williams
'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.
‐‐ Alec Berg
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
‐‐ Agnes de Mille
The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
‐‐ Conrad Hilton
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
‐‐ John Paul Stevens
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
‐‐ Lawrence G. Lovasik
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
‐‐ Betty Grable
The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
‐‐ Frederick Pollock
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
‐‐ James M. Barrie
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
‐‐ George Sand
The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
‐‐ Samuel Barnett
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
‐‐ John Sununu
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
‐‐ Pierre Bonnard
The precondition to freedom is security.
‐‐ Rand Beers
The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
‐‐ Bill Kurtis
The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
‐‐ John C. Mather
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
‐‐ Breyten Breytenbach