Famous quotes containing the words dam and/or power:
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)