Quotes about Power
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
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
— Harry S. Truman
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
— Albert Einstein
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
— Harry S. Truman