Famous quotes containing the words power and/or sum:
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (17511836)
“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEAREs wit.
The men who lived with him became
Poets, for the air was fame.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)