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Solomon noted that envy is the reason why most people overwork!
— Rick Warren
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
— Alice Walker
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
— Timothy Keller
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
— Alexander Hamilton
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.
— Thomas Jefferson
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.
— George W. Bush
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
— George Washington
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.
— Malcolm X
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
— AW Pink
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
— Thomas Watson