Quotes about Power
No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
— Barack Obama
I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.
— Eva Moskowitz
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
— Max Lucado
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
— Oscar Wilde
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
— CS Lewis
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
— Dustin Hoffman
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
— James Madison
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
— George Washington
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
— Alexander Hamilton
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
— Brennan Manning
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
— Winston Churchill
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
— Joseph Heller