Quotes About Power

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.