Quotes About Power

To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

When you control seed, you control food.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

There is power in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.