Quotes about Power
I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.
- Max Lucado
Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.
- Joel Osteen
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
- St. Augustine
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
- Alexander Hamilton
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
- Thomas Jefferson
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
- Andrew Jackson
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
- James Madison
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
- Grover Norquist
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
- Franklin Pierce
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
- CS Lewis
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
- John Lennon
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
- Ronald Reagan