Quotes About Power

Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower.

Within the nature of God is a strength that is fashioned in His perfection. Strength flows from the fountain of God's integrity. Honest people are the strongest people.

I've never seen the Holy Spirit, but I've seen His powerful wind blowing through people's lives.

The power holder may be the person whose "private motives are displaced onto public objects and rationalized in terms of public interest

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not.

The nation, the Supreme Court has said, has "no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln." The

above all, Locke's transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal voice. "Who shall be Judge whether the Prince or Legislative act contrary to their Trust?" he had asked

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.