Quotes About Power

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

History - the devil's scripture

Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

History has been the history of warfare.

History is where tensions were.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.