Noah Webster Quotes

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Noah Webster

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• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Influence
  • Skill

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Man
  • Name

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Me
  • Question

• In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Power
  • Nature

• The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • War
  • Law

• America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Love
  • Power
  • America

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Power

• I absolutely believe in the power of innovative entrepreneurship on every level. That's why I am exploring ways to improve our education system by making it as effective as a private tutor and as engaging as video games.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Power

• The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Development

• In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.

  

  Pablo Francisco
  • Men
  • Women
  • Blonde

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

  

  Amy Adams
  • People
  • Inspired

• I am the greatest money player in history.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Money
  • History
  • Player

• Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Power
  • Insolent
  • Despotic