Famous quotes containing the words power and/or light:
“The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)