Famous quotes containing the words powers, include and/or flight:
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I thought if war did not include killing, I’d like to see one every year.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“When the flight is not high the fall is not heavy.”
—Chinese proverb.