Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Power

• If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Powerful, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

• The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Power, Protection

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Expression

• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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