Quotes About Power

American presidents come and go, but we spies ensure. – Ari Shamron

To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?

To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We went from superpower to basket case overnight.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They're magical people. They have special power.

Hey, y'know what money can buy? A solid gold gun. That shoots diamond bullets. I call it "The Compensator". Whatta ya think?

This your bomb? I'm here to return it to you. Up your ass. Hey, speaking of which, you used to work with Iron Fist a lot, right? How is that 'SPEAKING OF WHICH?!!- Power man & Deadpool

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people

The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

With authority comes responsibility.

Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.

Corporations declare more than $2.6 billion in lobbying expenditures each year. "For every dollar that unions and public interest groups spend, large corporations and their associations now spend $34.