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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| Power to Property |
| Power, 1443–1458 absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute p., 1448 absolute p. corrupts absolutely, 1443 achieve political p. and do big things, 1361 America become a second-rate p., 1885 America to remain master of her p., 1311 being in other men’s p., 1449 Bureaucracy, the giant p. wielded by pigmies, 706 chief p. in the State, 1419 come to know their p., 46 concedes nothing without a demand, 443 concentrated government p., 1774 concentration of p. … precedes the destruction of human initiative, 1458 disastrous rise of misplaced p., 1177 duration of p., 765 enough p. … will lead toward a one-party government, 1489 essence of Government is p., 1450 executive p., 1078, 1505 express grant of p. from the governed, 763 fix any limit to his p. in this respect, 1495 Four things greater than all things are,—Women and Horses and P., 824 from the governed, 763 general or implied grants of p., 214 gradual and silent encroachments of those in p., 523 his little day of chance p., 1110 in questions of p., then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, 331 in the people, 1454 interpretation of executive p., 1505 it [order] is p., 1289 legislative p., 324 limitation of governmental p., 1080 man who rises to p. / From one suspender, 1452 Money is p., 1201 moral p. is to physical as three parts out of four, 1213 More p. than any good man should want, 1447 more p. than any other kind of man ought to have, 1447 mortal p., 865 new instruments of public p., 1455 no undefined residuum of p., 1511 of administrative bodies, 582 of defence, 412 of government, 1567 of impeachment, 893 of Kings and Magistrates, 1453 of removing [his subordinates] from office, 1500 of the legislature is strictly limited, 1040 of the thought to get itself accepted, 1835 over a man’s support, 1446 over his will, 1446 parallel p. which defies the elected p., 445 Political p. grows out of the barrel of a gun, 1451 political p. is primarily an illusion, 1415 preclude the exercise of arbitrary p., 789 resist the concentration of p., 1458 resorted to p. because our politics has failed, 1445 resorting to p. in order to make our politics succeed, 1445 shortcut to international p., 1258 should be derived from the people, 765 superior in p. to kings and tyrants, 1022 tends to corrupt, 1443 they sought to tame, 1456 to begin the world over again, 2035 to declare an Act of Congress void, 938 to destroy, 1792 to impeach and remove the President, 894 to interpret the people’s will, 1711 to make money, 1207 to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world, 545 to tax is not the p. to destroy, 1792 to tax is the p. to destroy, 1798 to the executive, 1044 to which it is for their good that they should be subject, 742 true corrective of abuses of constitutional p., 491 war-making p. to Congress, 1495 was turned back to the people, 1617 which dominates in the United States does not understand being mocked, 362 which knowledge gives, 969 will ever be liable to abuse, 1450 worthy of our p., 662 |
| Powerful Who is p., 1146 |
| Powers accumulation of all p., 790 avoiding in the exercise of the P. of one department to encroach upon another, 791 depository of the ultimate p. of the society, 491 the distribution or modification of the Constitutional p., 339 full use of your p. along lines of excellence, 567 lose by degrees their separate p. the parts, 1867 wherever these two p. [making and enforcing laws] are united together, there can be no public liberty, 788 |
| Powers, David Francis (1911– ), 1095 |
| Pox die on the gallows or of the p., 372 |
| Practicability realm of p., 1784 |
| Practical exercise of the art of self-government, 1425 kind of politics, 1424 politics, 1421 |
| Prairies glistening in the sun, 350 |
| Praise, 1459–1461 him when he does right, 1507 |
| Praised [Senate has been] extravagantly p., 296 |
| Praises of sincerity, 1459 who p. every body, p. nobody, 1461 |
| Pray cream, and live skim milk, 1111 I look at the Senators and p. for the country, 289 to the God that made us, 53 To where the people go to p., 1239 |
| Prayed for victory, 1950 |
| Prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side, 704 This is my wish, my goal, my p., 65 unspoken part of the p., 1950 |
| Prayers, 89, 106, 703, 1462–1480, 1636, 1950 unspoken p. were answered, 1477 |
| Prays to the human form divine / Love Mercy Pity Peace, 1464 |
| Preach a better sermon, 1780 what they practise, 1314 |
| Preaching most of us enjoy p., 1508 |
| Precedent establishes a p. that will reach to himself, 1072 |
| Preconceived notion, 263, 583 |
| Predatory plutocracy and predatory poverty, 1249 |
| Prejudice, 1481–1484 last socially acceptable p., 1483 not swayed by passion and p., 267 oppression of bias and p., 1615 party p., 119 Sex p., 1483 |
| Prejudices merely rearranging their p., 1266 more ready to lay down lives than p., 811 most folks educate their p., 1266 of the few, 314 |
| Presbyterians, 897 |
| Present breaking away from the p. moment, 1195 in dealing with the p., thought is steadily taken for the future, 312 inadequate to the stormy p., 1300 past may rob the p. of much joy and much mystery, 1093 which is already dying, 2095 |
| Preservation of life, & liberty, 396 of our political system, 894 of the spirit which prizes liberty, 1069 |
| Preserve duty is to p. what the past has had to say, 1295 For every good that you wish to p., 1605 Reform, that you may p., 1584 a republic in vigor, 1337 what is good and fruitful in our national heritage, 1420 |
| Presidency, 1485–1519 burdens of the office outweigh its privileges, 1501 burdens of the P., 1513 high and lonely office, 1494 is not merely an administrative office, 1504 offers a chance to do something, 1501 splendid misery, 1493 terms of office, 1488–1489, 1569 |
| President ability of the P. and the Congress to govern this Nation, 526 can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power, 1511 choose for its P. anybody that it wants, 1489 countrymen did not want any of them for P., 1485 even more important to tell the truth … about him, 1507 first P. to preside over an American defeat, 1885 if the P. in the recess of Congress [acts] … without the possibility of a check, 1931 is merely the most important among a large number of public servants, 1507 is the Chief Executive of the nation as well as a party leader, 1512 leading figure in a small group of men, 1485 legislative job of the P., 1516 must be greater than anyone else, 1509 [not] wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate … a kind [to the] p., 615 opinion of the P. not the facts & proofs themselves, 1931 owes his election to … labors of a political party, 1380 places our P. where kings have always stood, 1495 rather be a one-term P., 1885 rather be right than be P., 1503 rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be P., 1949 reigns … and Journalism governs, 1524 sometimes the P. has won, 272 there must be no criticism of the P., 1507 to invade a neighboring nation, 1495 to-night had a dream, 1339 two-term P., 1885 what I should do as P., 1486 whether or not their P. is a crook, 1564 while I remain P., 1683 whose religious views are his own private affair, 669 would very much like to be P., 1499 |
| Presidential nomination, 349 slip of the tongue, 1509 |
| Presidents do make mistakes, 749 great P. were leaders of thought, 1504 take them [ex-P.] out and shoot them, 1488 |
| Press, 1520–1524 abuses of the p., 935 freedom of the p., 676 If in other lands the p. … are censored, 654 is free, 492 liberty of the p., 677, 1060 on [slogan], 1355 quits abusing me, 1523 To the p. alone, chequered as it is with abuses, 1521 why our p. is still subject to no censor, 737 Without an unfettered p., 671 |
| Pressure courage to resist public p., 1604 groups, 1039 |
| Pressures special interests and the p. that are always at work, 1567 |
| Pretense Nothing chills p. like exposure, 610 |
| Prevail man will not merely endure: he will p., 1145 pillars to help him endure and p., 1145 |
| Prevails spirit of national masochism p., 1876 |
| Prevarication Fraud and p. are servile vices, 1082 |
| Price of liberty, 1073 |
| Pride costs us more than hunger, 1116 My high-blown p. / At length broke under me, 1103 say with p., 274 |
| Priest hath his fee, 2072 or Senator, and remain fit for anything else, 287 strangle the last king with the guts of the last p., 965 |
| Priest’s plait the p. guts, 965 |
| Prime Minister chief power in the State, 1419 room for only one P.M., 912 top of the greasy pole, 1778 |
| Prince is not equal to the healthy son of a peasant, 554 should a P. form himself by this book, 1457 |
| Princes still go on their knees to address the successors of those p., 1598 wise p. avoid as much as they can being in other men’s power, 1449 |
| Princes’ wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on p. favours, 1103 |
| Principle brethren of the same p., 1596 common bond of p., 1706 comradeship of thought and of p., 2081 difference of opinion is not a difference of p., 1596 He [an Englishman] does everything on p., 535 moderation in p., 1199 mother p., 1597 politics without p., 1697 quarrel which has already been settled in p., 2050 |
| Principles are unyielded and unyielding, 101 business p., 535 easier to fight for p. than to live up to them, 1311 I care little who lays down the general p., 582 ignore some of the basic p. of Americanism, 61 imperial p., 535 of a free constitution, 324 of free speech and free assemblage, 1711 of Jefferson, 1719 of self-government, 1975 patriotic p., 535 pursue his p. unto death, 356 that gave her [America] birth, 2049 whether you have abandoned good p., or whether you ever had any, 1976 will carry you to very illogical and absurd results, 1975 your Lordship’s p., or your Lordship’s mistresses, 372 |
| Printing press, 1536 |
| Priorities As long as Congress does not revise its p., 806 with respect to … allocating our steadily decreasing resources, 811 |
| Prison go to p., 1671 had no knowledge of the brightness outside, 1526 house of the spirit, 18 keep him in p. because he is unpopular, 1525 taint was on everything there, 1526 |
| Prisons, 1525–1528 society can be judged by entering its p., 1527 |
| Privacy, 1529–1531 age of no p., 1529 |
| Private Handing money back to the p. sector, 17 his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are p., 1530 interests are represented 1588 languid indifference of p. life, 1647 life is to be preferr’d, 1565 opinion creates public opinion, 1558 rights and public happiness, 82 views of p. interest, 1551 |
| Privilege individual p., 759 |
| Privileged and the People, 1631 |
| Privileges most delicious of all p., 805 of high office, 1522 special p. to none, 1573 |
| Problem cannot be an American solution to every world p., 1735 easy solution to every human p., 1736 one p. after another presents itself, 1096 |
| Problems great unsolved p., 1661 not only the p. of America; they are the p. of men everywhere, 621 sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure p., 253 Some p. are so complex, 390 |
| Prodigal son, 635 |
| Profane fight for things sacred / And things p., 100 |
| Profession for which no preparation is thought necessary, 1427 |
| Profit making a p. is a sin, 138 |
| Profits capitalists are so hungry for p., 246 day of large p. is probably past, 1541 |
| Profusion and servitude, 381 |
| Progress, 1532–1541 far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness, 1292 from east to west, 658 idea of p., 182 If there is no struggle there is no p., 443 illusion of p., 1539 in the arts, 97 in the usual p. of things, 1791 institution which rejects p., 184 intellectual and moral p., 1663 is possible, 182 must be slow, 44 never rolls in on wheels of inevitability, 1693 of reason, 1932 of the human mind, 178 ravages of industrial p., 16 timekeepers of p., 1537 We want p., 1615 without concerned citizen action … we shall look in vain for p., 866 without free speech p. is checked, 672 |
| Progressed not p. morally as much as it has scientifically and technically, 1538 |
| Progressive who is prudent, 1396 without getting both feet off the ground at the same time 1396 |
| Prohibition This country is for temperance and p., 37 |
| Promise, 1542 do not p. to consider race or religion in my appointments, 1577 faithfully to keep every p., 629 If you make a p., the thing is still uncertain, 1543 a jay will go back on his solemnest p., 305 little, 629 make real the p. of democracy, 1693 of America, 68 party which gives the best p., 1670 prefer a false p. to a flat refusal, 1543 still untried, 1542 to build a bridge even where there is no river, 1398 what we ought not, 1544 |
| Promised land, 572 to give us large presents, 1545 |
| Promises, 1543–1546 and bonds I undertook when I ordered the armies of the United States to the soil of France, 698 and Pye-Crusts are made to be broken, 1546 gained office by any secret p., 1492 Great Father [President] made us many p., 1545 to other politicians than to God, 1408 voters never grow weary of illusory p., 1391 |
| Properties which belong to honorable men, 185 |
| Property, 1547–1550 as its prey and plunder, 1549 banks and corporations … will deprive the people of all their p., 1204 belongs to man and not man to p., 867 destruction of p., 46 free to acquire p., 1633 hard money represents p., 359 helplessness of p. holders, 46 in few hands, 1549 in his rights, 1548 inequality of p., 1549 is the fruit of labor, 1547 judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our p., 328 magic of p. turns sand to gold, 1550 man’s p., is surely that which is the result of his mental activity, 1197 may be regulated to a certain extent, 1586 men of some p., 1629 no dangers to the value of p., 46 No man’s life, liberty or p. are safe while the Legislature is in session, 1041 of all, 2080 [pollution] reduces p. values, 544 preserve p., 314 regard of the law for private p., 997 right of p., 1068 rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical, 867 rights must be carefully safeguarded, 867 rights of p., 1549 their lands and p. shall never be taken from them [the Indians], 55 Without p. of any kind he cannot educate himself, 1698 would be saved by a strong military government, 421 |
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