Anne Bishop Quotes

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.

By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

We can destroy only as creators

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

I certainly wouldn't stand for policies that are gonna end up destroying America, this special place, because once this special place is destroyed and is no longer special, then where is everybody gonna go?

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!

The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?

A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.