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The saying pre-dates Amazing Fantasy. The phrase "with great power goes great responsibility" was spoken by J. Hector Fezandie in an 1894 graduation address at The Stevens Institute of Technology: "The Moral Influence of a Scientific Education", The Stevens Indicator, Volume 11, Alumni and Undergraduates of Stevens Institute of Technology, 1894, p. 217. The exact phrase was repeated during a speech by President Harry S. Truman on November 6, 1950: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, United States Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 703. A UK Member of Parliament implied in 1817 that a variant of it was already a cliché ( The editor is quoting William Lamb (pp. 1125–1229)). The sentiment is also found in Luke 12:48: "from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked" (NIV). (en) |
