Quotes about Power

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

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.

A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.