Quotes about Power

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.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

One with the law is a majority.