Quotes about Power

We need a global conversation because the Bible itself is global. God's Word has never been the exclusive property of the elite. God's Word is for the world. If anything, the Bible gives priority to the weak, the oppressed, and the poor and is tougher on privileged people who hold the reins of wealth and power but refuse to wield their advantages for the good of others.

Whatever power and privileges Jesus' followers possess are gifts to be held loosely and wielded for the care and benefit of others...

May the Force be with you.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.