Assumed Powers

Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or powers:

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
Have pulled the Immortal Rose;
And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,
The Polar Dragon slept,
His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)