Quotes about Power

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.