Sentence examples for dictum that it from inspiring English sources
In closing, McCain quoted Aung San Suu Kyi's famous dictum that "it is not power that corrupts but fear.
"Yogi Berra does have some pertinence here," said Professor Friedland, referring to the baseball legend's dictum that "it ain't over till it's over".
The most famous expression of this relative weighting of likely harms is the Blackstonian dictum that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer" (Blackstone 1770: 352).
David Hume gave the distinction its classical formulation in his dictum that it is impossible to derive an "ought" from an "is".
He liked to quote Thomas Jefferson's dictum that it was impossible to have democracy in an uneducated country.
World powers invariably follow Nicollo Machiavelli's dictum that it is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can't be both.
History of Britain, by Simon Schama, (29hrs 20mins, BBC, £49.99) "It's the way you tell it" is a dictum that applies as much to history as to jokes.
In the wilder reaches of comedy, it is a dictum that life soon imitates art and authority exists for the purpose of being toppled.
It is a reminder of Hannah Arendt's dictum that behind evil's awe lies a miserable banality, and - crucially - about the manufacture of power.
It's a corollary of Ronald Reagan's grand dictum that "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
Inverting the familiar dictum that "form follows function", Niemeyer demonstrated instead that, "When a form creates beauty it becomes functional and therefore fundamental in architecture".
