Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

“Take but degree away, untune that string,
And hark what discord follows!
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Force should be right, or, rather, right and wrong—
Between whose endless jar justice resides—
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then everything includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“O, when degree is shaked,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
The enterprise is sick.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)