Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy..., but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all have known Good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes;... Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up.-- Now, may the good God pardon all good men!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanageme...nt of health care, is there anything to boast about?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail, False and untrue, enticed oft to treason,... Enemy to youth (that most may I bewail!), Ah, bitter sweet! infecting as the poison, Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken: Today ready ripe, tomorrow all too shaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »