Quotes about Power
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
— Aesop
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.
— George Washington
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
— Edmund Burke
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
— Ayn Rand
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
— Benjamin Disraeli
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
— Edmund Burke
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
— Frederick Douglass
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
— George Clooney
Influence is not government.
— George Washington