Quotes by Raleigh, Sir Walter

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the >>

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast >>

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has >>

Quotations about Power

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you mu >>

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave >>

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. >>

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter