Famous quotes containing the words mode, power and/or supplies:
“Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it,—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country.... With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You don’t have power if you surrender all your principles—you have office.”
—Ron Todd (b. 1927)
“Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)