Quotes About Power

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

History is the devil's scripture.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

History is past politics and politics present history.