Power Quotes

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.