“Power constrained is but a glorious slave.”
Canto V, stanza 5 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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“They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods.”
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
2003, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003)
Context: Conservatives believe man was created in God's image, while liberals believe they are gods. All of the behavioral tics of the liberals proceed from their godless belief that they can murder the unborn because they, the liberals, are themselves gods. They try to forcibly create "equality" through affirmative action and wealth redistribution because they are gods. They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods. They adore pornography and the mechanization of sex because man is just an animal, and they are gods. They revere the U. N. and not the U. S. because they aren't Americans — they are gods.
“A despotic power makes slaves.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.”
Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
“In life, for one reason or another, we are all slaves of power.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Nella vita, per un motivo o per un altro, siamo tutti schiavi del potere.
Source: prevale.net
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador
Though there might be some published translation of such a statement, there is as yet no published source located for this, and it resembles the remark of Maximilien Robespierre, as quoted in Robespierre (1935) by James Matthew Thompson, p. 135: "There is one thing more despicable than a tyrant — it is a nation of slaves." <br class="br">Source: Archivo del Libertador https://web.archive.org/web/20170922093736/http://archivodellibertador.gob.ve/, document N° 565; Pérez Vila, Manuel (compilator, 2009), Simón Bolívar. Doctrina del Libertador, p. 45, ISBN 978-980-276-474-7. note: Second Republic of Venezuela (1814)
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 117
