Quotes about Power
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
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
— GK Chesterton
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
— Winston Churchill