Quotes about Power
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
— John Adams
Be God or let God.
— Anonymous
His Christianity was muscular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
— Anonymous
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
— GK Chesterton
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
— GK Chesterton
A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
— Martin Luther
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
— Harry S. Truman
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
— Abraham Lincoln
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
— Ben Carson