Quotes About Power

And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.

Words have magic, and they have power. Words have color, a vivid brilliant red. Words can be drab, an old battleship gray. Words can soothe, and words can ruffle.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.

The past does not have the power to undermine your future. Only you can do that.

Words that provoked the gods once from him fell. No beasts so fierce, said he, but I can quell; When lo! the earth a baleful Scorpion sent, To kill Latona was the dire intent. Orion saved her, though himself was slain, But did for that a spacious place obtain In heaven. To thee my life, said she, was dear, And for thy merit shine illustrious there.

Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

In light of the tensions among Western allies — the mightiest Democratic alliance is the union of 50 states.

Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

The Art of getting Riches consists very much in Thrift. All Men are not equally qualified for getting Money, but it is in the Power of every one alike to practise this Virtue.

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who is doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop; I'm the train. I'm the train.

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a giant oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

When Your Vote Doesn't Count, Neither Do You

Vote! It's your superpower.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

The sea hath no King but God alone.

There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.