Quotes about Power
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
- Samuel Johnson
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
- Abraham Lincoln
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Thomas Jefferson
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.
- Ray Comfort
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
- Thomas Jefferson
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
- Mahatma Gandhi
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Samuel Johnson
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
- Khalil Gibran