Quotes about Power
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
— Og Mandino
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
— James Madison
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
— James Madison
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment
— Myles Munroe
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
— Charles Colson
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.
— John Adams
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams
Love is the most durable power in the world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
— Nadine Gordimer
If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
— William Booth
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
— George Whitefield
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
— Thomas Paine