Memo written as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/britain-retrenched-island-europe-papers-react-to-brexit-day (1949)
“Unlimited power is helpless, as arbitrary power is capricious. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We can attempt nothing great, but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter: we can persevere in nothing great, but from a pride in overcoming them.”
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
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As quoted in Toward Peaceful Unification: Selected Speeches & Interviews https://books.google.com/books?id=nNc2AzJmwPoC&pg=PA3&dq=%22There+was+little,+if+any,+feeling+of+loyalty+toward+the+abstract+concept+of+Korea+as+a+nation-state%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IOkhVebpAYqWsAWOgILoCQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false (1978), Kwangmyong Publishing Company, pp. 47-48.
1970s

Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787)

Remark made at Kremlin New Year's Eve reception, December 31, 1956. Quoted in Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw. ISBN 9781448205059
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 34

“We can have enough clean energy to power every home.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)